Professional Counselor, The: A Process Guide to Helping: International Edition (7e)

Also helpful for beginning counselors and students preparing for licensure/certification

Students and beginning counselors get the concepts, skills, interventions, strategies, and techniques they need to achieve effective results with their clients.

Starting with initial client contact and continuing through relationship building, assessment, goal setting, strategy selection, treatment planning, and finally, evaluation and termination, this valuable guide gives counseling students and beginning counselors the knowledge and skills they need to work effectively with their clients. Each step in the process is presented concisely and supplemented with real life case examples illustrating the skills and interventions. The chapters are keyed to CACREP standards to help readers refer to the appropriate content when preparing for licensure/certification. Included are discussion questions in each chapter to help readers draw out the essential content of the chapter and Appendices with ready to use forms for use in clinical settings to monitor and record client progress.

Chapter 2: The Language of Counseling

Chapter 3: Stages and Skills of Counseling

Chapter 4: Building a Working Relationship

Chapter 5: Assessing Client Problems

Chapter 6: Developing Counseling Goals

Chapter 7: Defining Strategies and Selecting Interventions

Chapter 8: Affective Interventions

Chapter 9: Cognitive Interventions

Chapter 10: Behavioral Interventions

Chapter 11: Systemic Interventions

Chapter 13:Termination and Follow-Up

Appendix A                             

Integrative Practice Exercises

Appendix B                   

Forms and Guides for Use in Counseling

Appendix C                             

 Ethics and Professional Practice Websites

References

Index

Now enhanced and broadened, this new edition reflects areas of improvement to the field, specifically, readers get:

• A quick index to CACREP-related material they can use to prepare for the state licensure/certification examination study. Inside the front cover of the book, a table identifies key CACREP requirements and the chapter(s) in which they are discussed.
• Direct, immediate experience for learning and integrating sound counseling skills. Each chapter includes new case examples illustrating how skills and competencies can be applied to actual counseling cases.
  
• Up to the minute, expanded research and references showing readers how to implement the most current counseling practices. Each chapter includes updated and expanded research and references
• Opportunities to see concrete examples of the skills and procedures described in each chapter. The web-based video illustrations or counseling skills and procedures appear at the end of each chapter.
• Specific guidance on ethical behavior and consequences of not following ethical codes.
  At the end of each chapter, readers see ethical issues raised in counseling practice and how to associate them with the ACA Ethical code.
• Clear examinations and comparisons of ethical codes of various sub-specialties with the counseling field. Appendix C includes a Table of Internet URLs for ten professional codes of ethics.
• Ideas for visualizing the same case with different treatments. A specific case is carried through each intervention chapter, which describes how a case evolved through the stages of counseling

• Relate theory to practice—each of the intervention chapters presents a case with different treatments scenarios    
• Plan for interventions. A roadmap for assessment helps readers plan for interventions is presented in the form of a five-step model (used in the NCE examination).    
• Apply the concepts to their actual practice. Included are guidelines for assessing cases using five theoretical contexts—affective, cognitive, behavioral, and theoretical.    
• Identify spiritual issues that give them alternative ways of working with clients.    
• Incorporate specific counseling interventions through a separate chapter on client assessment and treatment planning/    
• Learn how to determine treatment planning for managed care and learn how to plan for managed care criteria.    
• Understand the management of counseling cases through a series of forms and guides in a helpful Appendix B.

Harold Hackney, Professor Emeritus of counseling at Syracuse University, is a national certified counselor, licensed professional counselor, and approved clinical supervisor and is a Fellow of the American Counseling Association. Harold is past-president of the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, a former member of the ACA Governing Council, and served on the Board of the Center for Credentialing in Education. His areas of expertise include counselor training, training of future counseling professors, research methodology, counseling processes, and counseling theory. Hackney’s writings draw from his experiences as a school counselor and a marriage and family counselor, as well as from his research on counseling processes and spirituality in counseling. Prior to his appointment at Syracuse University, Hackney was a professor at Purdue University and Fairfield University.

Sherry Cormier, Professor Emerita of counseling, rehabilitation counseling, and counseling psychology at West Virginia University, is a licensed psychologist in the state of West Virginia and a long-standing member of the American Counseling Association. Her areas of expertise include counselor training, counseling interventions, cognitive-behavioral therapy, clinical supervision, and health and wellness. Currently she is affiliated with Transformational Practices, an endeavor in which she provides clinical and consultation services and training to a variety of individuals and organizations. Prior to her appointment at West Virginia University, she was a faculty member at the University of Tennessee.