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Chapter 1: Counseling: Helping as a Professional Practice

Chapter 2: Helping - The Practice of Facilitating Change

Chapter 3: The Counseling Relationship: A Unique Social Encounter

    • Author Video
    • The Counseling Relationship


    • Empathy


    • Counseling Video
    • Dr. Dickenson with client reflecting content


Chapter 4: Identifying the "What Is": Probing the Client's Issues

    • Author Video


    • Counseling Video
    • Open Ended Questions
      • Dr. Owens with Jenny


      • Dr. Owens with Megan


      • Dr. Dickenson with Jenny


      • Dr. Snyder with Christina


      Closed Ended Questions
      • Dr. Dickenson with Jenny


      • Dr. Owens with Megan


      • Dr. Snyder with Christina


      • Dr. Owens with Jenny


      Encouraging
      • Dr. Owens using non-verbal encouragers


      Clarification
      • Dr. Neale-McFall clarifying


      Challenging
      • Dr. Owens with Megan


      • Dr. Snyder with Christina


      • Dr. Dickenson with Jenny


      • Dr. Owens with Jenny


      Summarization
      • Dr. Owens with Jenny


      • Dr. Synder with Christina


      • Dr. Dickenson with Jenny


      • Dr. Owens with Megan


      Interpretation
      • Dr. Owens with Megan


      • Dr. Snyder with Christina


      • Dr. Owens with Jenny


Chapter 5: Goal Setting: Identifying the "what is desired"

    • Author Video


    • Dr. Zubernis on Goal Setting


    • Video Links
    • Goal Scaling
      Brief illustration of a counselor helping a client identify place on a goal scale.
    • SMART Goals
      A brief introduction to setting Goals in the SMART format, a process which may Goals more defined and easier to achieve, thus enabling you to create the results for wealth and happiness that you seek in your life and business more efficiently.

Chapter 6: Moving from "what is" to "what is desired"

    • Author Video


    • Video Links
    • Carl Rogers & Gloria
    • Goal Scaling
      Brief illustration of a counselor helping a client identify place on a goal scale.
    • SMART Goals
      A brief introduction to setting Goals in the SMART format, a process which may Goals more defined and easier to achieve, thus enabling you to create the results for wealth and happiness that you seek in your life and business more efficiently.

Chapter 7: Practice Accountability: An ethical mandate and a practice necessity

    • Author Video


    • Video Links
    • Termination Process
      A demonstration of the termination process - depicting the challenges involved in ending a long-term relationship (in this case, the client-counselor relationship

Chapter 8: Counselor Competence: An Ethical Precondition to Successful Intervention

    • Author Video


    • Video Links
    • Supervision and Continuing Education
      Developing and Implementing Online Supervision in Counselor Education: Strategies to get Started, Jonathan Lent
    • Scott Bayliff
      Scott Bayliff, Associate Executive Director, Places for People in St. Louis, Missouri, discusses the purpose and implementation of clinical supervision of his staff. Content focuses on the process of supervision as a method for mentoring and evaluating staff competence relative to client interactions, professional competence and personal wellness.

Chapter 9: Care for the Counselor

    • Video Links
    • Burnout-Compassion Fatigue and Secondary Trauma
      Compassion Fatigue can develop because even though working with suffering people is rewarding it can also be hard to take sometimes. Dr. Frank Ochberg explains the causes, symptoms and methods for coping with compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma.
    • “Resilience Man”
      Resilience man (a cartoon presentation) discusses "vicarious trauma." He shows how to cope with the impact of things you see and hear when working with victims of violence, natural disasters, and tragedies of various kinds.
    • Counseling Video
    • Faculty discussion on Burnout


Chapter 10: The Unfolding Professional Identity

Chapter 11: Case Studies

    • Counseling Video
    • Faculty Discussion on Case Studies


Authors: Richards D. Parsons and Naijian Zhang

Pub Date: January 2012

Pages: 408

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