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In an interview in late 2001, Professor Hoxtor predicted the increasing complexity of the issues that counsellors would face in the future, and what would be required of them:

So, the question arises, how from now on how can we go ahead, how can we develop this whole field? The field has developed in a most spectacular way. Today there are people in certainly 120 countries who are committed to counselling as a major factor in emotional, intellectual and spiritual rehabilitation and growth …so that is a great plus, a great achievement but there is so much to be done. The reason in part is that we are engaged in a society which is all the time trying to discover and develop new areas of understanding, new areas of spiritual and intellectual activity in the sense of the integration of the individual or the family in society, but we are today in a society we have to adapt to and live with, which is more challenged, more attacked from within and from without, than we have for the past hundred years. On the one hand I think that counselling offers huge opportunities for helping and supporting and understanding social and personal emotional needs, but it is based, in my opinion, on a major exercise in learning. I think that counsellors in the future will have to develop their learning at a much higher level than we have done in the past (Borgen, 2003, p. 89).