A Global Portrait of Counselling Psychologists’ Characteristics, Perspectives, and Professional Behaviors

Counselling psychologists in eight countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa,\ud South Korea, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States) responded to survey questions\ud that focused on their demographics as well as their professional identities, roles, settings and\ud activities. As well, they were asked about satisfaction with the specialty and the extent to which\ud they endorsed 10 core counselling psychology values. This article reports those results, focusing\ud both on areas in which there were between-country similarities as well as on those for which\ud there were differences. These data provide is a snapshot of counselling psychology globally and\ud establish a foundation for the other articles in this special issue of the journal