Friday, October 31, 2025
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
J7 – Promotion of Wellness Within Counselor Education Programs: Counselor Educators as Role Models

To help mitigate the occupational stress and potential for burnout in counselors, there has been a growing interest in how to promote wellness in counseling students from the start within their counselor education programs. Research on student wellness has shown that students consider counselor educators role models for engagement in wellness, and decreases in faculty members' wellness can lower student perception of wellness as essential. Therefore, counselor educators can foster wellness in counseling students by practicing wellness and emphasizing its importance in the program's culture.

Wellness & Self-Care
Session – CE Hour 1 (Ethics)