What are expectations regarding student self-disclosure while enrolled in CSPP?
The practice of counseling requires significant self-disclosure and personal introspection for the person receiving counseling. Counseling students must become very familiar and comfortable working with the process of individual self-disclosure and introspection. Therefore, it is an essential training component of the CSPP program to provide assignments and classroom experiences that call for students (i.e., counselors-in-training) to self-disclose and personally introspect about personal life experiences to an extent not expected in their academic disciplines. As such, the CSPP faculty is committed to and expects an atmosphere of respect and confidentiality among our students. These expectations are in accordance with the American Psychological Association (APA) whose comments regarding the ethics of requiring self-disclosure in an academic program are as follows: Psychologists do not require students or supervisees to disclose personal information in course- or program-related activi
