Component #1: Professional Identity1) Grounded in knowledge of history and trends in the profession, student describes roles and functions ofthe contemporary professional school counselor in relation to others within and outside of the school inplanning and implementing a collaborative model for school counseling.According to Erford (2019) there are three major ways that school counselors can act as professionals,which include being aware of the history of guidance and counseling, using effective evidence-basedtechniques and practices, and maintaining professional memberships, such as ASCA and ACA. Whendeveloping a professional identity as a contemporary school counselor, one must consider the history of theprofession and the role of the school counselor. In 1952, the American School Counseling Association(ASCA) was founded and later became the fifth division of what is now known as the AmericanCounseling Association (ACA) (Erford, 2019). ASCA’s perspectives helped evolve the school counseling
