Year: 2021 Source: Journal of Counselor Preparation and Supervision. 2021). 14(3), Article 1. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/jcps/vol14/iss3/1 SIEC No: 20210705

The Counselor Education and Supervision professional community is responsible for providing training on suicide to Master’s students in counseling. Elevated suicide rates and historically insufficient training
along with updated practice, ethical, and accreditation standards necessitate changes to counselor preparation on suicide. Readiness assessment can support the CES community’s aims to meet such standards. A Consensual Qualitative Research team utilized a community readiness framework to analyze interviews with fifteen educators, administrators, and supervisors in diverse CACREP-accredited programs. Readiness findings inform counselor preparation and policy at the course, program, state, and national level.