Professional School Counseling Emerging Scholars Special Issue Introduction

Abstract

In this special issue, the contributing authors, who are the PSC Emerging Scholars inaugural cohort, provide an array of research and scholarship within the context of school counseling. These innovative scholars and their bodies of work utilized various methodologies when conducting research and creative conceptualizations largely grounded in social justice and systemic change: reimagining how the school counseling profession could be strengthened across research, teaching, and practice. This scholarship reminds counselor educators, practitioners, and professional organizations alike to not settle for the status quo, nor maintain complacency. Further, the authors infuse fresh research and practice ideas and draw upon ongoing needs for clarity through their research on school counselors and their roles within K–12 public schools. This collective of work, framed around the Professional School Counseling Emerging Scholars Program, is compelling while leaving further questions to answer and opportunities to develop these burgeoning lines of inquiry.