An Advanced Lifespan Odyssey for Counseling Professionals

by Bradley T. Erford

Written specifically for counselors-in-training, this practical new text features an engaging writing style with real-life cases and applications. AN ADVANCED LIFESPAN ODYSSEY FOR COUNSELING PROFESSIONALS, 1st Edition, covers the typical lifespan topics, but with a focus on developmental issues you'll encounter as a counseling professional -- and the strategies and techniques to deal with them. Case studies and discussions of current issues anchor the material in the real world. Reflections from parents and current counselors further enhance the text's applied emphasis, giving you ideas for how to integrate the theories and other information into real-life practice. This is a book you'll want to keep on hand long after you leave the course.

Genres: Counselling, Grad School, Textbooks

999 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2016

Reviews

[Mya]

This book was done really well with majority of its chapters. It was of my most favorite books in my program.

[Erica]

Three stars mainly because I found the editor was too brief in some areas across the lifespan. I appreciate the desire to be brief, but I felt like some areas would have benefited from an expansion of the concepts.

[Tiffany Ye]

Textbook for EDF50000

[Laura]

Dated, uneven, some assertions that are incorrect and assumptive presented as facts. Not particularly insightful. Good personal examples, but dated.

[Erin Owen]

Super helpful and informative resource!

[Shania Pagel]

Reading this over three week nearly killed me.

[Jolee B]

Great book as far as text books are concerned. Kept everything to the point and well organized by age. Good insights into mental and emotional development in each age range of human development.

[Ainsley Hartman]

Overall a great textbook! Very easy to read and enjoyable :)

[Alyssa]

3.5/5

I don’t know what to say besides I’m proud of myself for reading this textbook cover to cover. What a journey.

[Caroline Hurdt]

This was one of the most engagingly written textbooks I have read. It’s a broad overview, but had helping counseling nuggets throughout. I read this for a seminary class and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it.