Technology in Counseling Education and Practice: Case Analysis and a Dynamic Course Design

Technology has been increasingly used in counseling education and professional practice in the past two decades. To ensure technology is appropriately used to produce expected quality of counseling work, design of technology integration in counseling becomes a key point. The first part of this artic...

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Published inInternational journal of technology in teaching and learning Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 123 - 138
Main Authors Liu, Leping, Li, Wenzhen, Scherer, Rebecca
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published International Journal of Technology and Learning 2016
Subjects
Counselor Training
Curriculum Design
Online Courses
Predictor Variables
Success
Technology Integration
Technology Uses in Education
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Summary:Technology has been increasingly used in counseling education and professional practice in the past two decades. To ensure technology is appropriately used to produce expected quality of counseling work, design of technology integration in counseling becomes a key point. The first part of this article presents a critical literature review and analysis on factors identified from the literature that may influence the success of a counseling case. A total of 261 cases from current literature were analyzed on five factors (Overall Design, Design of Counseling, Design of Technology Integration, Purpose of Technology Use, and Format of Counseling) regarding their influence on the success of counseling experiences. The first three factors in the five were found to be significant and hence included in a prediction model. The second part of this article demonstrates a dynamic design of an online course that prepares counseling students to use technology in their practice.
ISSN:1551-2576