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Encyclopedia of Counseling: Master Review and Tutorial for the National Counselor Examination, State Counseling Exams, and the Counselor Preparation Comprehensive Examination

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With more questions and answers than any other edition, the Encyclopedia of Counseling, Fourth Edition, is still the only book you need to pass the NCE, CPCE, and other counseling exams. Every chapter has new and updated material and is still written in Dr. Rosenthal's lively, user-friendly style counselors know and love. The book’s new and improved coverage incorporates a range of vital topics, including social media, group work in career counseling, private practice and nonprofit work, addictions, neurocounseling, research trends, the DSM-5, the new ACA and NBCC codes of ethics, and much, much more.

760 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 21, 2017

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Howard Rosenthal

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December 9, 2020
I’m counting this 🥵
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5 reviews
December 19, 2021
I passed the NCE today thanks to this book and the audio study guide!! While this book is looooong and the information is presented in over 1800+ questions, it’s a great comprehensive guide to everything you need to know to take the NCE. Thanks Dr. Rosenthal!!
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168 reviews
April 24, 2023
i will give 5 stars if i pass my test

update: i passed
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4 reviews
January 16, 2025
Reviewing this after I took the NCE and I passed! I feel like this book was super helpful and set me up to understand how to think about the questions.
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December 30, 2024
i am 100000% counting this because i legit read it cover to cover lol. not super fun studying the concepts i’m not as interested in, but it was a VERY helpful study tool! i really appreciated the practice questions & how it summarized each core content area so well!
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119 reviews
July 19, 2025
UPDATE I PASSED! Used this + NCE Study guide podcast on Spotify


Counting this BC I READ IT COVER TO COVER. 1100 practice questions over the different counseling domains. Helped jog my memory and scaffold onto some other concepts. Here’s to crushing my NCE!
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12 reviews1 follower
May 28, 2023
I’m counting this because I read it cover to cover at least twice this month. Gave it 5 stars because I passed the NCE using this book 🎉🎉🎉
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30 reviews1 follower
June 27, 2023
I’m counting this because it was long and boring but oh so helpful (passed my test 🤩)
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72 reviews1 follower
November 15, 2023
Read this (the blue 2017 version - most updated) front to back and front to back again. Passed my NCE so I’ll take it. Now I can get back to actual reading bless
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23 reviews
January 31, 2025
100/10. I had a lot of background knowledge from doing psych in school for like the last 7.5 years buuut this was a really good tool for the NCE! The way he explained things worked for the way I learn. Passed 🥰
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21 reviews1 follower
December 13, 2023
helped tremendously, could’ve been juicier imo. have to count this since it took up precious audiobook time
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139 reviews
March 2, 2023
counting this bc I read the whole book and prep even though it made me miserable 😭 gotta have it count for something I guess
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39 reviews3 followers
March 17, 2022
Thank you for following along! I did finish the book and I did PASS my exit exam 🙌🏼
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