A survey of counselling training and practises among United States speech-language pathologists working in adult rehabilitation contexts.
Purpose: Counselling is one of the eight pillars of clinical practice for speech-language pathologists, but training varies across programmes and practising speech-language pathologists feel unprepared to deliver counselling in clinical practice. This study examined the perspectives of speech-langua...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Vol. 28; no. 4; pp. 685 - 696 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Aug2026
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