Provincial Differences in Counselling Psychology in Canada: An Empirical Analysis of British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario
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Counselling psychologists are vital providers of community mental health services in Canada. This quantitative descriptive study provides a more refined understanding of counselling psychology in Canada by examining similarities and differences in its manifestation across three provinces in Canada: Alberta (AB), British Columbia (BC), and Ontario (ON), based on survey with 109 Canadian counselling psychologists. This study found eight moderate size differences. This information needs to be taken into consideration by provincial boards, provincial psychological associations, graduate training programs, counselling psychologists considering relocating, and especially by the potential consumers of counselling psychology services as both the services and service provider appears to differ in some ways across Canada.
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