As a masters level counseling student 20 years ago I ran into this in the NC professional group.
The in-thing then was “values clarification” which I initially thought had some possibilities until I realized that it did NOT mean ‘clarifying’ and then *affirming* the traditional values of the people our communities (I live in the mountains). It was instead, PC based and these people needed to be enlightened or delivered. (I had already been through “T groups” et. al. with a liberal mission board, so it was more of the same thing.)
I forget the actual issue that tipped it for me, but I ended up writing the then president and suggesting that he start acting like what his position was supposed to be — not an evangelist for left wing social engineering. I never joined the state organization and lasted only a few years with the national AACC (I thought I had to for professional credibility).
