Gatekeeping is an ethical mandate for members of the counseling profession, however, many professionals struggle to implement appropriate boundaries and remediation with students who display dispositional concerns. There is a need for structured frameworks and concrete examples of gatekeeping practices that professionals can reference in their training of new counselors. The authors of this text will focus on defining trauma-informed gatekeeping and its importance in counseling, counselor training and development, and supervision. We will be providing case studies/examples inspired by real experiences from counselor-educating professionals who have implemented trauma-informed strategies into their gatekeeping practices.
This book provides concrete examples of trauma-informed gatekeeping practices with the intent of helping professionals gain more confidence in gatekeeping decision-making and lessening their avoidance of gatekeeping with conceptualization and strategies based on an established framework of trauma-informed principles. We will also include ethical standards and processes to further inform decisions. The target audience for the text is counselor educators in academia, field supervisors, and doctoral students in counselor education honing their identity and skills as gatekeepers.