2011

When implementing student remediation in counseling graduate programs, resources available to counselor educators and supervisors include scholarly work in the professional literature, the American Counseling Association‟s Code of Ethics (ACA, 2005), and the Accreditation Standards from the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP, 2009). The Code and Standards have established the current known parameters surrounding remediation, providing a broad, overarching umbrella for implementation. This inherent broadness is part of the challenge; a general dilemma that arises is the specific mechanics of how to go about remediating students. The necessity and charge to remediate is clear, but that charge may be the only aspect of remediation that is clear. This conundrum represents the main ethical and legal problem when undertaking student remediation: what exactly to do?