Orientation to the Counseling Profession: Advocacy, Ethics, and Essential Professional Foundations
Erford,Orientation to the Counseling Profession: Advocacy, Ethics, and Essential Professional Foundationsback cover copy final Current and innovative,Orientation to the Counseling Professionprovides students with a comprehensive overview of the major tenets of the counseling profession, including advocacy and multicultural counseling, licensure, professional associations, ethical and legal issues, consultation, supervision, outcomes research, and counseling process with diverse applications across the lifespan, settings, and specialties. ·   Aligns with 2009 CACREP standards,which defines the standard of quality in the counselor preparation field.·   Provides chapters on outcomes research and accountability in counseling,giving students a research-based look at what works in counseling and instruction on how counselors can adopt effective counseling interventions.·   Focuses on multicultural issues in counselingwith an entire chapter featuring multicultural applications of identity development and counselor competency and with the remaining text highlighting multicultural implications.What reviewers have to say about this text:“The Erford text is particularly strong in its attention to the latest and most pressing issues in the counseling profession.  Specifically, chapters on multiculturalism in counseling, advocacy, accountability and outcome research will prepare students as they embark on their counselor training program.”            --Wade Leuwerke, Drake University “Students will especially benefit from the specific examples and suggestions for counseling interventions, lists and descriptions of resources….and up-to-date codes and competency standards.  These components make this [text] very useful as an introductory text and reference throughout the graduate training program.”            --Yvonne L. Callaway, Eastern Michigan University