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

by Bradley T. Erford

This is the bound book only and does not include access to MyLabTM Counseling with Pearson eText. To order MyLab Counseling with Pearson eText packaged with the bound book, use ISBN 0134387422. Current, innovative, and all encompassing, Orientation to the Counseling Advocacy, Ethics, and Essential Professional Foundations provides a wealth of information on the most foundational and emerging issues of the counseling profession. It is specifically designed to orient counselors-in-training, regardless of specialty area, to the profession of counseling. The title includes comprehensive coverage of the major tenets of the counseling profession including advocacy and multicultural counseling, licensure, professional associations, ethical/legal issues, crisis intervention, consultation, supervision, outcomes, research, and the counseling process, with diverse applications across the life span, settings, and specialties. Written in keeping with new counselor preparation initiatives, which expose counselors-in-training to essential current and future practices, it prepares students for the future of the counseling practice into which they are about to enter. New to this 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.

Genres: Grad School, Counselling, Psychology, Textbooks, School

640 pages, Paperback

First published April 2, 2009

Reviews

[Melissa Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really well written for a text book, I have no time to read anything else so I'd better enjoy it!

[Erin Kingland · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this for Individual and Group Counseling (CHRD 451) at SDSU. Book was thorough and interesting. One of the better textbooks I have been assigned to read

[Christopher · Rating 2 out of 5]

Did you need a history book on counseling, wow a dense read.

[Maycee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well written and easy to read. Had to read for a class (COUN 601).

[Chris Tower · Rating 4 out of 5]

meh.

[Jenn]

12 weeks, 12 papers...on to the next course...lovin' it!