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Counseling: A Comprehensive Profession (Merrill Counseling) 8th Edition
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The most readable, practical, comprehensive overview of the roles and responsibilities of the professional counselor available―updated and improved to meet the needs of today’s counselors.
Long respected as the most comprehensive guide to the counseling profession available, Samuel Gladding’s text continues to emphasize counseling as a profession and counseling as an identity, while focusing on the roles and responsibilities of the professional counselor. Designed to ensure students get a head start in preparing for the professional challenges they will face in their futures as effective counselors, the book includes the latest research from counseling journals and other professional resources to show clearly the challenges of the profession that lie ahead. The new edition of the text contains an even stronger emphasis on counseling as a profession and counseling as an identity, along with new or expanded sections on wellness, trauma, social justice, theories, process, multiculturalism, diversity, rehabilitation, motivational interviewing, bullying, microaggression, international counseling, addiction, abuse, and ethical and legal issues within the counseling profession. This text is even more equipped to help students prepare for professional challenges and a lifetime as an effective counselor than ever before.
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- ISBN-109780134460604
- ISBN-13978-0134460604
- Edition8th
- PublisherPearson
- Publication dateJanuary 10, 2017
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions0.7 x 7.3 x 9.1 inches
- Print length560 pages
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The most readable, practical, comprehensive overview of the roles and responsibilities of the professional counselor available―updated and improved to meet the needs of today’s counselors.
Long respected as the most comprehensive guide to the counseling profession available, Samuel Gladding’s text continues to emphasize counseling as a profession and counseling as an identity, while focusing on the roles and responsibilities of the professional counselor. Designed to ensure students get a head start in preparing for the professional challenges they will face in their futures as effective counselors, the book includes the latest research from counseling journals and other professional resources to show clearly the challenges of the profession that lie ahead. The new edition of the text contains an even stronger emphasis on counseling as a profession and counseling as an identity, along with new or expanded sections on wellness, trauma, social justice, theories, process, multiculturalism, diversity, rehabilitation, motivational interviewing, bullying, microaggression, international counseling, addiction, abuse, and ethical and legal issues within the counseling profession. This text is even more equipped to help students prepare for professional challenges and a lifetime as an effective counselor than ever before.
Among the text’s new features are:
- Counselors are kept current on the emerging trends in the field through over 240 updated and new references.
- The text is now more approachable for courses taught on a semester basis through a format consolidation from 20 to 18 chapters.
- Important information on the history of counseling (previously presented as an opening chapter in the Seventh edition) now appears in Appendix A, providing additional reading for those interesting in expanding their knowledge.
- Students and professors get a strong look at many of the main tenets of the major approaches to counseling through new charts that appear within the two chapters on theories and in Appendix B.
- A more in-depth knowledge of supervision is provided in the expanded section.
- The flow of counseling as a complete entity is made clearer that combines the topics of working in a counseling relationship, and closing or terminating a counseling relationship.
- Learning through visual cues is enhanced through the inclusion of over 40 new graphs and tables inserted throughout the text without interrupting the narrative around them.
- How to work effectively with diverse and multicultural populations is supported through information that reflects the changes in demographics in the United States today. Infused throughout the book is material on working in a diverse and multicultural climate.
About the Author
Samuel T. Gladding is a professor in the Department of Counseling at Wake Forest University. He is a fellow in the American Counseling Association (ACA) as well and its former president. He has also served as president of the American Association of State Counseling Boards (AASCB) and president of Chi Sigma Iota (international counseling honorary). Gladding has authored numerous professional publications, including 45 books. Prominent among them are these texts by Pearson: Groups: A Counseling Specialty (2016), Family Therapy: History, Theory and Practice (2015), and Clinical Mental Health Counseling (with Deborah Newsome) (2014).
Twice a Fulbright Specialist (Turkey and China), Professor Gladding has taught counseling and worked with counselors and universities in over a dozen countries and his writings have been translated into half a dozen languages. He was a first responder to the 9/11 attack in New York City and to the shootings at Virginia Tech providing psychological first aid to families and colleagues of victims killed. The American Counseling Association awarded him their highest honor, the Gilbert & Kathleen Wrenn Award for a Humanitarian and Caring Person; the Association for Creativity in Counseling named their Inspiration and Motivation Award in his honor; and the ACA has named their Unsung Heroes Award after him.
Product details
- ASIN : 013446060X
- Publisher : Pearson; 8th edition (January 10, 2017)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 560 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780134460604
- ISBN-13 : 978-0134460604
- Item Weight : 1.6 pounds
- Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.3 x 9.1 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #427,493 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #154 in Academic Development Counseling
- #757 in Medical Counseling
- #1,204 in Popular Psychology Counseling
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About the author
I grew up thinking I wanted to be a minister. However, at Yale Divinity School I fell in love with counseling. As the old adage goes: "People plan, God laughs."
My life has been transformed by the profession of counseling. I have been fortunate to have earned degrees from Wake Forest (B.A., M.A.), Yale (M.A.), and the University of North Carolina-Greensboro (Ph.D.) and to have had academic and clinical appointments in Connecticut, Alabama, and North Carolina. Since 1990 I have been a professor in the Department of Counseling at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
When not teaching, writing, or providing clinical services, I have taken on leadership roles. I have been president of the American Counseling Association, the American Association of State Counseling Boards, and Chi Sigma Iota (international counseling honor society). I am a Fellow in the American Counseling Association and the Association for Specialists in Group Work. (I have also served Wake Forest in the President's and Provost's offices and have chaired my department).
I have published books and articles about counselor identity, family therapy, groups, counseling theories, ethics, and the creative arts in counseling. I am a licensed professional counselor (LPC)and have served as a member of the North Carolina Board for Licensed Professional Counselors. I have taught counseling courses and made presentations on counseling throughout the United States and on every continent except Antarctica.
I was a mental health responder after 9/11 in New York (Pier 94)and after the shootings on the Virginia Tech campus. In the mid-1990s I worked in the homes of Mother Teresa in Calcutta, India. I have been fortunate to have been a Fulbright Specialist to Turkey and China, an external reviewer of counseling programs at universities in Malaysia, and to have studied humor and mental health at Oxford.
I enjoy reading history and humor, swimming, walking, and "hanging out" with my wife, Claire, and our three young adult children. I am an existentialist although I use a variety of approaches in my work as a counselor. Oh, I still like theology.
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People of color need to have a voice in academia as these books are written to educate future counselors. The perspectives of other races & cultures should come from their perspectives not what white people studied or researched and then wrote from their privileged perspective.