Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Field Experience as Formative to Professional Identity
Field Experience: A Unique Learning Experience
Field Work: Fostering an Emerging Professional Identity
Shared Values and Perspectives
Case: More than One Person
Case: Tertiary Prevention
Case: Strength Based Approach to Empowerment
Chapter 2: Matching Self-to-Site
It Starts With Self-Appraisal
Core Knowledge and Skills
Beyond the Core - Specialty Knowledge and Skills
Lifestyle and Career Development
Beyond the Core - Specialty Knowledge and Skills
Matching Self-to-Site: Targeting Professional Development
Chapter 3: From the Ideal to the Real
Knowing the Ideal
Performance Assessment - Suggesting Priorities
Role and Function in Service of the Mission
Case: Breaking Free
Case: Time Study
Case: Gaining Permission to Engage the Parents
Chapter 4: The Ethics of Practice: More than Knowing, BEING
The Need and Value of Professional Ethics
Case: Not Comforting
Case: Sensitive to Client Culture
Fidelity
From the Ideal to the Real
Chapter 5: Reflecting on Practice
Reflecting "on" Practice: Case Conceptualization
Case: A Changing Picture
Case: Something - Not Quite Right?
Case: Mid-Conversation Adjustment
Reflective Practice - Supporting Efficacy and Accountability
Case: Is it really the distraction?
From Assessment to Development
Chapter 6: Growing through Supervision
Counseling Supervision
Case: Thank God, For Dr. L.
Counseling Supervision Models
Case: Needing a Sitter
Case: Loosing Perspective
Transitioning from Student to Professional Counselor in Supervision
Chapter 7: Multicultural Counseling in Practice
Case: Why does He Wants to Know That?
Case: Why Does He Wants to Know That?
Case: Confronting My Own Ethnocentrism and Racism
Counselor Awareness of Own Cultural Values and Biases
Case: Confronting My Own Ethnocentrism and Racism
Case: Is She Really Helping?
Case: Alda
Case: A Case of Child Abuse
Case: Cocreating Meaning
Chapter 8: Crisis Prevention and Intervention - Suicide and Homicide
Phases of Crisis and Counselor Response
Identifying Risk: Common Characteristics of Suicide
Case: It's Difficult for Me to Go On
Case: Where is the way out?
Chapter 9: Reducing Risk
The Risk of Physical Harm
Reducing Legal Risks
Professional Boundaries
Case: Case Conferencing
Case: Documentation
Chapter 10: Documentation and Record Keeping
Standard of Care
Desirable Defense against Litigation
The "What" of Case Documentation
Progress Notes: A Fundamental and Practical Form of Recording
Case: A Real Surprise
Recommendations for Case Notes Writing and Record Keeping
The "HOW" or Format of Case Documentation
Chapter 11: Termination and Closure
Terminating the Counseling Relationship
The Ethics of Termination
Case: Ward vs. Wilbanks
Case: I'm Happy with My Therapy
Case: Debt Collection
Challenges to Effective and Ethical Termination
Case: No Longer Objective
Steps toward Effective and Ethical Termination
Chapter 12: Self Care and Self Protection - Necessary for All Counselors
Counseling - Challenging the Wellbeing of the Counselor
Burnout
Case: Celeste, A Counselor in Free Fall
Case: A Graduate Student in Simply Cared
Chapter 13: Transition from Practice to Career
Connection Between Internship and Career
Apprenticeship - Stepping Into the World of the Professional
Preparation for Employment
Job offers and Your Decision
Placement Resources
Advanced Education
Chapter 14: Transitions - Self as Counselor
Identity
Case: Experimentation
Case: Finding the Exception
Professional Identity: Both Common and Unique
Responding to the Calling
Professional Ethics: From Knowing to Valuing
Contributing to the Professional Community
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