Full Description
In an easy-to-read, question-and-answer format, Dr. Corey provides sage insight on a broad range of topics concerning professional issues, career development, the counseling process, and work-life balance. Responding to an array of questions often asked by students over the years, he uses candid personal examples to highlight key lessons and engage readers in an active process of personal and professional self-reflection on their own journeys.
Topical question themes include creating your professional path, mentoring and being a mentee, surviving graduate school, benefiting from personal therapy, focusing on self-care and wellness, becoming an ethical counselor, managing value conflicts in counseling, using self-disclosure therapeutically, dealing with difficult clients, getting the most out of supervision, and becoming a writer. In each chapter, reflection questions encourage readers to consider their own views and experiences related to the questions raised, and recommended readings provide suggestions for further information.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Chapter 1: Creating Your Professional Path
Chapter 2: Glimpses From My Career
Chapter 3: Mentoring Students
Chapter 4: Graduate School and Beyond
Chapter 5: The Counseling Profession
Chapter 6: The Counselor as a Person
Chapter 7: Personal Therapy
Chapter 8: Self-Care and Wellness
Chapter 9: Theorizing About Theories
Chapter 10: The Practice of Group Counseling
Chapter 11: Becoming an Ethical Counselor
Chapter 12: Boundary Issues in Counseling
Chapter 13: Values in Counseling
Chapter 14: Multicultural Issues in Counseling
Chapter 15: Self-Doubt and Learning From Mistakes
Chapter 16: Self-Disclosure
Chapter 17: Dealing With Difficult Clients
Chapter 18: Supervision and Internships
Chapter 19: Writing and Becoming a Writer
Chapter 20: Special Topics in Counseling
Epilogue
References and Recommended Readings
