The Counselor Educator's Survival Guide: Designing and Teaching Outstanding Courses in Community Mental Health Counseling and School Counseling - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415875897 ISBN 13: 9780415875899

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

For those developing and teaching Counselor Education courses in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and School Counseling programs, this unique text will be a valuable resource. In it, experienced instructors provide guidance based on their own breadth of experiences, demonstrating how to design and implement an effective curriculum. Chapters cover course topics such as theories of counseling, multicultural counseling, legal and ethical issues, psychopharmacology, and many more. Each chapter is organized in the following sequence: an overview and objectives of the course, including CACREP standards criteria for evaluating a text and evaluations of the most popular texts used supplemental reading and web sites learning activities counseling vignettes assignments and a tentative course schedule concluding comments and advice from the author(s). The authors also speak about the main points they want their students to master and some of the dilemmas and challenges they have faced in their own teaching. Both seasoned faculty looking for ways to enrich a course and new educators teaching for the first time will find this an indispensible resource for both themselves and their departments.

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Review:

"Doctoral students and new faculty members, this is the resource you’ve been waiting for. This should be required reading for all novice counselor educators entering the field, and department chairs should buy several copies to keep on hand for new hires. An exceptional, unique, and much needed resource!" - Cynthia Briggs, PhD, Assistant Professor, Counselor Education, Winona State University

"This timely textbook provides excellent information. It enables faculty to achieve effective learning outcomes while giving students a firm foundation for building their careers in Counselor Education." - Bret Hendricks, EdD, Associate Professor and Clinical Director, Counselor Education Program, Texas Tech University

"The field of counseling has long awaited a resource such as this. Whether you are a beginning instructor or seasoned counselor educator, you will find something here to inspire and energize your teaching." - Julie M. Koch, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Applied Health and Educational Psychology, Oklahoma State University

"This book is compiled by experienced professors, counselors, and other professionals in the field who lend their expertise, making this an essential resource for those beginning their endeavours...a valuable resource and a must for the counselor educators library." - Tonia Goodrich, Association for Humanistic Counseling

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0415875897
• ISBN 13: 9780415875899
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 358
• Editor: Perera-Diltz Dilani M., MacCluskie Kathryn C.