ABSTRACT
I n 1988, Tom Skovholt and Patricia McCarthy published a series of brief, story-like articles from the counseling profession in a special issue of the Journal of Counseling and Development. The narratives were called “critical incidents” and were written by counselors, therapists, and counselor educators from a diverse array of backgrounds. Years ago as first-year doctoral students in the Counseling and Student Personnel Psychology Program at the University of Minnesota, three of us (Michelle Trotter-Mathison, Julie M. Koch, and Sandra Sanger) had the opportunity to explore these critical incidents as a part of our doctoral seminar.
