A historical descriptive study of the American Personnel and Guidance Association from April 1963 through July 1983

This research provides a historical account of the American Personnel and Guidance Association and provides a continuation of McDaniels’ 1964 study of the Association’s first eleven years. The purpose of this study is to describe the major years of diversification and redefinition within the Association between April 1963 and July 1983. The foci of this research consist of the major trends and issues throughout the period under study and include: membership trends, governance/leadership, professional issues, legislative activities, and Associational responses to societal issues. Data for this study comes directly from Association archival records of meetings, reports, documents, and Association correspondences and interviews with Association employees and leaders. Information is collected, synthesized and presented in a straight forward manner. The process involves organization of information followed by narration of explanations and conclusions. Data is organized chronologically. Recently renamed the American Counseling Association in July 1992, the Association remains the major national professional organization for counselors in the United States. This historical account incorporates fragmented information into one document so that a more accurate picture of the development of the Association and its role in relation to the counseling profession will be preserved.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Education

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Student Personnel Services

Department dc:contributor.department

Student Personnel Services

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

1993

Author dc:creator

• Newcombe, Brenda Hall

Chairs dc:contributor.committeechair

• Gerstein, Martin
• Hunt, Thomas C.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• McDaniels, Carl O.
• Hohenshil, Thomas H.
• Sporakowski, Michael J.

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

etd-10242005-174036

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/40175