Counseling Today: Foundations of Professional Identity

by Darcy Haag Granello, Mark E. Young

This innovative entrant into the foundations of counseling market meets the current generation of counseling students in the way they learn best–through meaningful pedagogical features and research-based content. Through its distinctive features, this text provides opportunities for students to reflect on what they are learning and explore independently through this process of reflection. The authors believe in the development of practitioners who learn through examining controversy, staying abreast of current research, and challenging their own thinking. Such practices will provide students with tools that will ultimately help them develop their professional identities. This is the bound book only and does not include access to MyCounselingLab ® . To order MyCounselingLab ® packaged with the bound book, use ISBN 0134466365. Also available with MyCounselingLab ® This title is also available with MyCounselingLab –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: Counselling, Textbooks, Nonfiction, School

552 pages, Paperback

First published February 28, 2011

Reviews

[Amy Robinson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a very well written, fact based, non-biased textbook on the basic preparation for the counseling profession. This is designed for the graduate student who has chosen the counseling profession as their graduate pursuit. I have read a lot of textbooks, but I have never been able to just sit down and read a textbook like I was able to do with this one. Very nice job of presenting facts and not opinion!

[Grayson Rosen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This had been a great orientation to the profession and to the path ahead for counselors-in-training! I enjoyed it, which is rare for a textbook.

(Note: I read the 2nd edition, published 2019)

[Melody · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm not actually done with it yet, I'm only halfway through it. But I love this textbook! I never review textbooks because they're all usually boring or dry. This book is the perfect text for beginner counselors and I love how it's written. Down-to-earth, plain English, conversational and interesting. It doesn't talk down to you. It doesn't get stuck on boring facts or try to force you to remember a bunch of dates and names. Each chapter is dedicated to a different subject that either explains some area of the profession or helps acclimate you to the profession. The summaries at the end are legit, the questions are meant to make you really think, the definitions are coherent, and I have learned so much so far. Diversity is next for my foundations class and I'm excited to dig into it.

[Krista · Rating 4 out of 5]

Used this in my Intro to Counseling class. I'd give this 3.5 if I could. I felt the book was easy to read and covered a lot of topics that might usually just be assumed to be known by a student entering the counseling profession. I think it is a good idea to cover the basics. Sometimes it seemed a bit too basic, but definitely better to cover your bases. The book managed to be lighthearted too. Pleasant and quick to read.

[Amber · Rating 3 out of 5]

We covered most of this book in my intro to counseling graduate class, and the rest I read and skimmed on my own. There really isn't much to say, it is a textbook after all, but it is well organized an briefly covers a wide range of topics involved in the counseling process. It was a good supplement to the course I took.

[Becky Lang · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great foundational text

The only issue I have is that, at the end, the author claim that the use of psychedelic medicine in therapy is/was a “flash in the pan,” which is factually untrue. This is a modality that is actually becoming more and more normalized.

[Olivia · Rating 3 out of 5]

My professors LOVE this book and rave about it. Apparently I’ll need it for my licensure exam. I will revisit it when the time comes.