Full Description
A Counseling Primer, second edition, introduces students to the profession of counseling, reviews its training curriculum, discusses current professional standards, and presents basic counseling skills.
The text is designed to answer students' most commonly asked questions around the who, what, where, when, why, and how of counseling. Updated and aligned with the eight 2016 CACREP core areas, the second edition includes new chapters by experts from seven entry-level specialty areas, including school counseling, career counseling, and mental health counseling. The book also contains useful features to enhance the learning experience, including case examples, class handouts and activities, a sample syllabus, discussion questions, and more.
A variety of online resources including instructor's manual, PowerPoint slides, tests, class activities, and student supplements are also available for download.
In a comprehensive and accessible format, A Counseling Primer, second edition, provides students with a succinct, up-to-date picture of the counseling profession and the tools they need to make their contribution to the field.
Contents
Part I. 1. Introduction 2. Who? Answers About Counselors and Clients 3. What? Answers About the Meaning of Counseling, Its Past, Its Present, and the Future 4. What? Answers About the Body of Knowledge: Ethics, Social and Cultural Diversity, Human Growth and Development, and Career Development 5. What? Answers About the Body of Knowledge: Helping Relationships, Group Work, Assessment, and Research and Program Development 6. Where? Answers About Settings and Surroundings 7. When? Answers About Processes, Phases, and Procedures 8. Why? Answers About Caring and Social Justice Part II. 9. Addictions Counseling 10. Career Counseling 11. Clinical Mental Health Counseling 12. Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling 13. College Counseling and Student Affairs 14. Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling and Therapy 15. School Counseling Part III. 16. Basic Attending Skills 17. Basic Responding Skills 18. Questioning Skills and Systematic Inquiry 19. Affect and Empathic Understanding Skills 20. Responding to Thoughts and Behaviors
