Orientation to the Counseling Profession: Advocacy, Ethics, and Essential Professional Foundations

by Bradley T. Erford

Current and innovative, Orientation to the Counseling Profession provides 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.

This first edition text focuses on the new counselor preparation initiatives that expose counselors-in-training to essential current and future practices that are missing from the current texts on the market. While many comparable introductory counseling orientation texts approach the field from a dated perspective and more of a global “helping professions” perspective, Orientation to the Counseling Profession, on the other hand, emphasizes new counselor preparation initiatives including: professional identity that focuses on ACA and its divisions, branches and affiliates as the core entities of the counseling field; advocacy counseling, professional advocacy; accountability in counseling; and knowledge of outcomes research.

Genres: Grad School, Counselling, Psychology, Textbooks, School

452 pages, Paperback

First published April 2, 2009

Reviews

[Robert Hillier]

Not really sure how to rate or review a textbook. But it’s a book and I read to whole thing so I was for sure gonna put it on here

[Melissa Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really well written for a text book, I have no time to read anything else so I'd better enjoy it!

[Erin Kingland · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this for Individual and Group Counseling (CHRD 451) at SDSU. Book was thorough and interesting. One of the better textbooks I have been assigned to read

[Christopher · Rating 2 out of 5]

Did you need a history book on counseling, wow a dense read.

[Maycee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well written and easy to read. Had to read for a class (COUN 601).

[Chris Tower · Rating 4 out of 5]

meh.

[Jenn]

12 weeks, 12 papers...on to the next course...lovin' it!