ABSTRACT
Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) indissoluble efforts to standardize counselor education and training programs laid the foundation for its successor—Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). The profession of school counseling has been largely shaped by its multidisciplinary heritage that encompasses both education and counseling. In 1997, the Education Trust, with the support of American School Counselor Association (ASCA), ACES, and the American Counseling Association (ACA), introduced the Transforming School Counseling Initiative (TSCI). As a spice-of-life consequence to our multidisciplinary profession, school counselors generally take a variety of counseling, school counseling, and education courses. CACREP provides counselor education programs with unified, minimal competencies for the optimal preparation of school counselors at the graduate level. School counselors are best prepared through master's- and doctoral-level programs that align with the philosophy and vision of the ASCA National Model , the ASCA School Counselor Competencies.
