Global students' counselling self‐efficacy and experiences of a United States‐based counselling training programme

Abstract

ABSTRACTDistance counsellor education programmes in the United States have expanded educational opportunities for global students to pursue counselling training while remaining in their home countries. The purpose of this mixed‐methods study was to explore global counselling students' and recent counselling graduates' perceived applicability and practicality of the learned counselling knowledge, skills and interventions within their own global and cultural communities. A total of 12 individuals participated in the study; results showed that participants believed that they were capable of demonstrating helping skills and effectively working with clients. Qualitative findings identified participants' need for additional programmatic and institutional support and globally inclusive curriculum. The authors discuss implications for counsellor educators who provide distance counselling training for global students. Finally, the authors provide recommendations for future research to enhance the quality of distance counselling training in counsellor education programmes.