Poster 2. Understanding the current status and promotion of wellness in counselor education programs is critical because counselors are an important tool in the counseling process. International counselor trainees (ICTs) have often been silenced in wellness literature, though counselor education programs recruit students with diverse backgrounds. This presentation will provide recent wellness literature, the needs of understanding ICTs’ wellness perspectives, and provide discussion for developing a culturally humble wellness instrument by using a sequential mixed-methods approach.
