IndoctriNation: How Woke Ideology Hijacked the Counseling Profession

by Dawn M. Irons

There has been a storm brewing for some time within the counseling profession. The stage has been set, and the players are in place. But no one could have predicted how this storm would play out in the everyday lives of counselors, educators, students, and clients. Or could they? Maybe it was more calculated than it seemed. Dr. Dawn Irons, Ph.D., LPC-S, BCPCC, methodically takes the reader step-by-step through some of the landmark legal cases within the counseling profession and pulls the curtain back to examine exactly how we got here. Decades of professional literature show the timeline of how the counseling profession has been politicized and weaponized by pitting two federally protected classes of people, the LGBTQ+ and the religious/spiritual populations, against one another. IndoctriNation will take a deep dive into the professional codes of ethics, position papers, and accreditation standards to unveil the hypocrisy and clear biases evident within the two largest national organizations of the American Counseling Association and CACREP.

152 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 23, 2024