Gatekeepers for the profession

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Imagine you are a counselor educator sitting down to read the morning  paper and find a mug shot of one of your counseling students on thefront  page. Or perhaps while attempting to complete an assignment for a  substance abuse course, one of your students attends an Alcoholics  Anonymous meeting and steals the spotlight by impersonating someone  struggling with alcoholism. Or maybe in your family counseling course, a particular student insists on regaling the class with endless stories about his parents’ harrowing divorce.

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