Counselling: A Comprehensive Profession
Language: English
Published by Longman, 1988
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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. …
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- Title
- Counselling: A Comprehensive Profession
- Author
- Samuel T Gladding
- Publisher
- Longman
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0675206979
- ISBN 13
- 9780675206976
This is the leading text for the survey course or Introduction to Counseling/Psychotherapy.
Covers professional foundations, overviews the counseling process and key theories, and examines counseling as it is practiced in a variety of situations (e.g., marriage and family, career). It is recommended by the profession as a primary source for study toward certification and licensure.
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About the Author
Samuel T. Gladding is a professor of counselor education and director of the counselor education program at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He has been a practicing counselor in both public and private agencies since 1971. His leadership in the field of counseling includes service as president of the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES), the Association for Specialists in Group Work (ASGW), Chi Sigma Iota (counseling academic and professional honor society international) and the American Counseling Association (ACA).
Gladding is the former editor of the Journal for Specialists in Group Work and the author of over 100 professional publications. In 1999, he was cited as being in the top 1% of contributors to the Journal of Counseling and Development for the 15-year period, 1978-1993. Some of Gladding's other recent books are: Community and Agency Counseling (with Debbie Newsome) (2nd ed., 2004); Group Work: A Counseling Specialty (4th ed., 2003); Family Therapy: History, Theory, & Process (3rd ed.,2002); Becoming a Counselor. The Light, The Bright, and the Serious (2002); The Counseling Dictionary (2001); and The Creative Arts in Counseling (2nd ed., 1998).
Gladding's previous academic appointments have been at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Fairfield University (Connecticut). He received his degrees from Wake Forest, Yale, and the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. He is a National Certified Counselor (NCC), a Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CCMHC), and a Licensed Professional Counselor (North Carolina). Gladding is a former member of the Alabama Board of Examiners in Counseling and of the Research and Assessment Corporation for Counseling (RACC). He is also a Fellow in Association for Specialists in Group Work.
Dr. Gladding is married to the former Claire Tillson and is the father of three children―Ben, Nate, and Tim. Outside of counseling, he enjoys tennis, swimming, and humor.
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