Foundations of Career Counseling: A Case-Based Approach, 1st edition

• Contextualizes all aspects of career counseling in practice with a case-based approach. (See for example pages 30-32, 52-55, 82-87.)
  • The in-depth case studies allow for deeper, more practical understanding of the application of theories, concepts, and techniques.
  • To support student mastery of the content and skills across the book, the cases are integrated and elaborated in every chapter.
  • To help students understand how to work with diverse groups, the clients in the cases come from different cultural and social backgrounds and present different career concerns.
• Covers all of the concepts, information, and applications students need to begin doing career counseling.
  • Students are trained in a full range of topics they’ll use in career counseling–many of which are addressed minimally by competing texts (ex. Ch. 7: Employment Law; Ch. 12: Card Sorts; Ch. 15: Career and Technical Education; Ch. 17: Job Loss, Unemployment and the Job Search Process).
  • Equally applicable to students in school, college or clinical mental health counseling tracks, the book provides thorough coverage of each track (e.g., K-12 school: Chs. 14 and 15; university and postsecondary educational settings: Chs. 15 and 16; and community and clinical mental health settings: Chs. 17 and 18).
  • A full chapter is even dedicated to the career development of counselors (Ch. 19: Charting Your Own Career Path as a Professional Counselor).
• Provides extensive coverage of diversity (throughout the text but also see Chapter 6 for a specific chapter devoted to working with diverse clients).
  • The text helps students understand how sociopolitical inequities, socioeconomic factors, and cultural norms can affect vocational development.
  • It helps students learn to how to conceptualize career development using cultural and contextual lenses.
  • It also provides specific practical strategies like cultural formulation interviews and culture and career genograms.
  • Helps students understand the impact of technology on the world of work and on the practice of career counseling (throughout the text, but see in particular Chapters 1 and 13).
  • The text explores how technological advances (e.g., the digital revolution) have changed the world of work and contributed to the need for career development support and career counseling.
  • Students are also exposed to roles technology play in the everyday practice of career counselors, including the wide variety of technological information resources currently available.
• A rich set of instructor support materials help instructors support and enhance student learning while significantly cutting instructor preparation time.
  • The Instructor’s Manual featuring interactive exercises for use in the classroom, a course syllabus, and assignment descriptions which build upon the cases featured in the book.
  • There are author-developed PowerPoint® slides for each chapter.
  • There are quizzes and study guides for each chapter.
  • And there is also a test bank to support the development of midterm and final exams.

Also available with MyCounselingLab^®

This title is also available with MyCounselingLab–an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with the text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students see key concepts demonstrated through video clips, practice what they learn, test their understanding, and receive feedback to guide their learning and ensure they master key learning outcomes.

• Learning Outcomes and Standards measure student results.
  MyCounselingLab organizes all assignments around essential learning outcomes and national standards for counselors.
• Video- and Case-Based Assignments develop decision-making skills.
  Video- and Case-based Assignments introduce students to a broader range of clients, and therefore a broader range of presenting problems, than they will encounter in their own pre-professional clinical experiences. Students watch videos of actual client-therapist sessions or high-quality role-play scenarios featuring expert counselors. They are then guided in their analysis of the videos through a series of short-answer questions.These exercises help students develop the techniques and decision-making skills they need to be effective counselors before they are in a critical situation with a real client.
• Licensure Quizzes help students prepare for certification.
  Automatically graded, multiple-choice Licensure Quizzes help students prepare for their certification examinations, master foundational course content, and improve their performance in the course.
• Video Library offers a wealth of observation opportunities.
  The Video Library provides more than 400 video clips of actual client-therapist sessions and high-quality role plays in a database organized by topic and searchable by keyword. The Video Library includes every video clip from the MyCounselingLab courses plus additional videos from Pearson’s extensive library of footage. Instructors can create additional assignments around the videos or use them for in-class activities. Students can expand their observation experiences to include other course areas and increase the amount of time they spend watching expert counselors in action.
• Comprehensive online course content.
  Filled with a wealth of content that is tightly integrated with your textbook, MyLab lets you easily add, remove, or modify existing instructional material. You can also add your own course materials to suit the needs of your students or department. In short, MyLab lets you teach exactly as you'd like.
• Robust gradebook tracking.
  The online gradebook automatically tracks your students' results on tests, homework, and practice exercises and gives you control over managing results and calculating grades. The gradebook provides a number of flexible grading options, including exporting grades to a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel. And, it lets you measure and document your students' learning outcomes.