ABSTRACT
Publishing research provides counselors and counselor educators with an opportunity to transform professional counseling and the ways in which we enact our professional roles and practices and ultimately impact our clients, students, and communities. We, as counselors, are driven by the opportunity and privilege to be change agents in our work with others at the individual and systems levels. Advancing the scholarly discourse provides us with a pathway to evoke change and fulfill our commitment to service. Our creativity, resiliency, tenacity, curiosity, and dedication are all qualities that help us navigate the challenges of being counselors, and they are also the qualities that we must leverage as we conduct an ethical study, write a publishable work, select an appropriate journal, respond to editorial feedback, and navigate the submission and revision process. This chapter will demystify the process of publishing research by providing insight into the publication landscape in counseling, the mechanics of successful manuscripts, the Scholar-Practitioner model, and strategies for successfully publishing. Practical applications for the developing writer and emergent scholar are included, with particular emphasis on determining authorship, communicating with journal editors, navigating rejection, and optimizing pacing while creating a pipeline of projects.
