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Current, innovative, and all encompassing, Orientation to the Counseling Profession: Advocacy, Ethics, and Essential Professional Foundations provides a wealth of information on the most foundational and emerging issues of the counseling profession. It is specifically designed to orient counselors-in-training, regardless of specialty area, to the profession of counseling. The title includes comprehensive coverage of the major tenets of the counseling profession including advocacy and multicultural counseling, licensure, professional associations, ethical/legal issues, crisis intervention, consultation, supervision, outcomes, research, and the counseling process, with diverse applications across the life span, settings, and specialties. Written in keeping with new counselor preparation initiatives, which expose counselors-in-training to essential current and future practices, it prepares students for the future of the counseling practice into which they are about to enter. New to this edition:
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Bradley T Erford, Ph.D., LCPC, NCC, is a professor in the school counseling program at Loyola University with primary teaching responsibilities in assessment, research, and lifespan development. He has held numerous professional leadership positions, including past president of the American Counseling Association, and published numerous books, articles and book chapters.
Section One: Foundations of Professional Counselor Identity
Chapter 1: Becoming a Professional Counselor: Philosophical, Historical, and Future Considerations--Bradley T. Erford and Gerta Bardhoshi
Chapter 2: Professional Counseling Organizations, Licensure, Certification, and Accreditation--Joshua C. Watson, Bradley T. Erford, and Grafton T. Eliason
Chapter 3: Ethical and Legal Issues in Counseling--Lynn E. Linde and Bradley T. Erford
Section Two: Counseling Processes and Approaches
Chapter 4: Theories of Counseling--Bradley T. Erford and Ann Vernon
Chapter 5: The Counseling Process--Donna S. Sheperis
Chapter 6: Counseling Microskills--Joseph B. Cooper
Section Three: Client Issues and Advocacy
Chapter 7: Risk Assessment and Crisis Intervention--Judith Harrington and Charlotte Daughhetee
Chapter 8: Mental Health Counseling Settings and Issues--Catherine Y. Chang, Amy L. McLeod, and Nadine E. Garner
Chapter 9: School, College, and Career Counseling--Nadine E. Garner, Jason Baker, and Molly E. Jones
Chapter 10: Human Development throughout the Life span--Bradley T. Erford
Chapter 11: Multicultural Counseling--Geneva M. Gray
Chapter 12: Assessment, Case Conceptualization, Diagnosis, and Treatment Planning--Bradley T. Erford
Chapter 13: Supervision and Consultation--Mark A. Young and Alan Basham
Chapter 14: Advocating for the Counseling Profession--Amy Milsom
Chapter 15: Advocacy Counseling: Being an Effective Agent of Change for Clients--Donna M. Gibson
Section Four: The Effectiveness of Counseling
Chapter 16: Accountability in Counseling--Bradley T. Erford
Chapter 17: Outcomes Research in Counseling--Bradley T. Erford
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