2024 Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling Conference

Table 3. In recent years, the counseling profession has paid more attention to the experiences of international, Black, Hispanic, and Latinx doctoral students and counselor educators. However, the professional identity development of black entry-level counseling students has not been attended to adequately. Through grounded theory study with a national sample of black students in CACREP-accredited master's counselor education programs, aspects of professional and racial identity development emerged and will be explored with the attendees.