It is critical for counselor educators to prepare graduate students to engage in scholarship in order to advance the counseling profession. By engaging counseling students in innovative research projects early in their graduate programs, we strive to ignite a passion for scholarship that continues into their careers. In this presentation, we will review the ACES Guidelines for Research Mentorship and provide strategies to support counseling graduate students. We will describe the lessons masters students learned from conducting action research projects during their internships. To close, participants will reflect upon their own research mentorship and solidify strategies to support students and supervisees to become more effective research collaborators.
