Full Description
Professional School Counseling is a comprehensive, single source for information about the critical issues facing school counselors today. This fourth edition of the Handbook integrates updates from the 2019 ASCA National Model, the 2022 ASCA Ethical Standards, and the 2021 ASCA Mindsets and Behaviors. Editor Bradley Erford and a top-notch range of experts provide readers with a strong foundation of the current state of school counseling while also offering perspective as to how the profession evolved to its current state and insights into the future of the field.
The seven sections in this edition include:
The Foundations of School Counseling
Leadership and the Professional School Counselor
Comprehensive School Counseling Services
Techniques and Approaches to Counseling in Schools
Assessment in School Counseling
Clinical Issues in School Counseling
Special Issues and Populations in School Counseling
Updated throughout to reflect the most current literature, this edition contains new chapters on:
Play Therapy
Visual Arts and the Professional School Counselor
Literacy-based Strategies for the Professional School Counselor
Conducting Structured Observations
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Response-to-Intervention
Social Emotional Learning
Counseling Children Experiencing Economic Instability
School Counselors and Social Media and Technology/Internet Safety
Broad-based and authoritatively written, it makes an excellent textbook for school counselor education programs and an extremely relevant professional resource. This volume is the essential tool for all school counselors, counselor educators, and counselor supervisors.
