Orientation to the Counseling Profession: Advocacy, Ethics, and Essential Professional Foundations, 3rd edition

Text features and benefits include:

• Get a strong foundation in counseling to take into a professional career with comprehensive coverage of such critical areas as the key historical events and people that gave rise to the counseling profession; an in-depth review of counseling theories, process, and skills; important ethical and legal issues in counseling; and how to conduct oneself as a professional counselor.
• Review counseling theories, process, and skills with insightful discussions of the nature and quality of the counseling relationship; the various counseling processes and approaches; and the fundamental skills that constitute the key elements of effective helping relationships.
• Explore the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required of the counselor when working with clients across the lifespan and with common presenting problems, as well as multicultural competence, consultation, and supervision. Included is coverage of such areas as working in general mental health settings, working in school settings, developmental characteristics across the lifespan, multicultural counseling, supervision and consultation, advocacy counseling, and assessment, case conceptualisation, diagnosis, and treatment planning.
• Address the crucial issues of accountability and outcomes in counseling through discussions on such areas as effectiveness, what works and what doesn't, empirically validated counseling methods, and a review of the literature on the effectiveness of counseling.
• NEW! An increased focus on wellness practices within the counseling profession prepares counselors-in-training to take care of themselves as they enter the profession and begin their practice.
• NEW! A new chapter on crisis intervention provides valuable information on the counselor’s role in dealing with this crucial contemporary issue.
• NEW! Keep thoroughly up to date with a current, innovation presentation that includes alignment with the 2016 CACRP standards, coverage of current trends, a look at key issues, application of the ACA and ASCA codes of ethics, internet or distance counseling, and updated references with nearly half more recent than 2010.

• A new chapter on crisis intervention provides valuable information on the counselor’s role in dealing with this crucial contemporary issue.
• A thoroughly up-to-date presentation of counseling today includes alignment with the 2016 CACREP standards, coverage of current trends, a look at key issues, application of the ACA and ASCA codes of ethics, internet or distance counseling, and updated references with nearly half more recent than 2010.
• An increased focus on wellness practices within the counseling profession (Ch. 1) helps prepare students for taking care of themselves as they enter the profession and begin their practice.

Also available with MyLab Counseling

This title is also available with MyLab™ Counseling—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. MyLab Counseling resources include:

• Learning Outcomes and Standards measure student results.
  MyLab Counseling organizes all assignments around essential learning outcomes and the CACREP standards.
• 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.
• 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 would 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.
• MyLab Counseling includes the Pearson eText version of the book, which integrates MyLab Counseling exercises throughout.