The ASCA National School Counseling Research Center: a brief history and agenda

Professional School Counseling, June, 2006 by Russell A. Sabella

In the next months and years to come, the ASCA National School Counseling Research Center and all of its partners will both challenge and support each member of the school counseling profession to do his or her part in this ongoing endeavor. Gysbers (n.d.) said it well when he wrote, "Accountability is an ongoing responsibility of the profession at the national, state, and local levels. Concern for accountability is never over" (p. 28).

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Russell A. Sabella, Ph.D., is a counselor educator in the College of Education, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, and currently the interim director of the ASCA National School Counseling Research Center. E-mail: rsabella@fgcu.edu