An Innovative Approach to Career Counseling: Theory and Practical Application is written expressly for career counselors in contemporary practice. It delivers the wisdom and insight of experienced practitioners who bring the core tenets of career development counseling to life with practical applications, diverse stories from the field, and activities to reinforce knowledge. The authors interweave research, theory, and the challenges of daily practice–encompassing both career and mental health considerations–and demonstrate proven strategies for working with varied populations in multiple settings. Each chapter links subject topics to counseling skills and examines the use of cutting-edge technology in career counseling practice along with examples and tips. Case studies demonstrating real-world applications emphasize ethical dilemmas and highlight diverse approaches, clients, and settings. Additional resources include information on resume development, interview preparation, cover letters, mock interview scripts, and career fair preparation tools.

This book is intended for graduate students pursuing careers as professional counselors in a variety of settings, including healthcare agencies and treatment facilities. All counselors, regardless of specialty or work environment, are likely to encounter clients who have a co-occurring mental and substance use disorder. The book is also useful for experienced counselors who did not receive comprehensive education during their training program but now work with clients who have co-occurring disorders (CODs). The focus on the counseling profession is unique to this book. Both the editors and the majority of the contributing authors are all professional counselors, many of whom are counselor educators and clinical supervisors, with direct care experience working with people who have CODs. Being rooted in the counseling profession provides a holistic, wellness perspective that is frequently lacking in books on CODs written primarily by professionals with medical degrees or other behavioral health backgrounds. Each chapter is purposefully written with the reader’s education in mind. To begin, each chapter lists the learning objectives, which indicate what the reader should be able to accomplish after thoroughly reviewing the material. The focus of the chapter content is on assisting readers in understanding what this means for their future work as counselors. This is especially evident in the case illustration and discussion sections, where readers are exposed to a clinical situation and then see how a clinical professional counselor would handle it. Each chapter concludes with suggested discussion questions, designed to help readers expand on the content of the chapters, use critical thinking skills, and, if done in dyads or groups, learn the art of consultation and collaboration with peers.

The Couple, Marriage, and Family Practitioner: Contemporary Issues, Interventions, and Skills delivers the knowledge and skills to help today’s diverse clients in an increasingly complex world. Sweeping in breadth and depth, this is the most comprehensive guide available to examine contemporary issues and interventions in couple, marriage, and family therapy. Designed for master’s- and doctoral-level students, this book helps clinicians examine their professional identity; describes family systems and systems theory; explores current issues facing today’s families, couples, and children; and details how to apply skills, interventions, and assessments to provide optimal service to clients. The book includes key information about multiculturalism, intersectionality, nontraditional families, and other social justice issues, as well as a dedicated chapter centered on working with people of color and underrepresented couples and families. Each chapter provides clear definitions, descriptions, and relevant scholarship along with activities and examples showcasing the use of systemic theory, contextual issues, major interventions, relevant technology, and skills. Voices From the Field sections written by diverse practitioners working with people of color, LGBTQIA+ clientele, and other underrepresented populations underscore important information and perspectives.

The Social Work Field Placement is designed to help Bachelor of Social Work and Master of Social Work students structure their field placement learning around the nine Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) social work competencies to maximize their field placement learning opportunities. The new second edition is completely updated with the 2022 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) and threads new content on anti-racism, diversity, equity, inclusion, and rights-based approaches to social work practice throughout. The chapters in Part I focus on helping students have a successful field placement experience. Each chapter in Part II focuses on a specific professional competency with substantive content on the competency. Learning activities in each chapter provide examples of field placement tasks and projects related to chapter topics and competencies. All chapters have field reflection questions, critical thinking questions, a detailed case summary illustrating one or more competencies with discussion questions, and electronic competency resource links to websites and videos.

Multicultural Counseling: Responding With Cultural Humility, Empathy, and Advocacy uses a strengths-based and liberatory approach to emphasize that our uniqueness is an asset to be nurtured and approached with humility, empathy, and advocacy. It expands diversity beyond race and ethnicity and enhances readers’ openness to people who are gamers, polyamorous, and of different faiths or no faith at all. The book is organized in three sections. Section I is an exploration of the reader, Section II illuminates the lived experiences of culturally diverse people, and Section III emphasizes practical application and approaches to support culturally responsive practitioners. Each chapter include clinical case scenarios, discussion questions, and activities in the instructor’s manual. Some chapters are supplemented by video interviews.

Social Work Skills for Community Practice: Applied Macro Social Work, Second Edition, aims to prepare social workers to engage in macro community practice by providing straightforward content for social work students that is enriched with practical and applicable learning experiences. The text focuses on building the social work skills required for organizing communities, including cause-based coalitions, geographically/identity-based communities, and health and human service organizations, to achieve culturally relevant, equity- and justice-driven social change. The second edition presents new information that includes self-care for the community practitioner, social work Grand Challenges, cultural humility, community dialogue, trauma-informed and resiliency-focused community development, environmental justice, and many other topics. Its focus on a broad range of community practice models makes it accessible to all social workers. This book is written for social work students and can be used either at the BSW or MSW level. It is intended for use in introductory macro social work practice courses and community practice courses, and it is designed to be accessible to both students who are interested in organizing and community practice careers and those who are likely to apply some of these skills in practice for tasks such as facilitating meetings, coalition building, facilitating public participation, engaging in political activism, and lobbying. This book includes case vignettes and a variety of suggested applied and experiential learning activities and assignments to reinforce content and to emphasize the skill-building focus of the text. The textbook is accompanied by an Instructor’s Manual that includes the Council on Social Work Education competencies covered in each chapter and suggested individual and group discussion prompts and activities. Sample PowerPoints to guide lectures and a Test Bank with multiple-choice and essay questions for each chapter are also available.

In this book, counselor educators contribute a data-driven foundation that includes years of experience in the field and research related to best practices. Current school counselors speak to how the work of school counselors often looks and feels in practice. K–12 students share how the interventions of school counselors have impacted their lives. In addition to ensuring intentionality with the voices present in this text, the authors focus on inclusion of issues that they feel are important to the profession. There is an entire chapter on LGBTQIA+ issues – a group that is often assigned a few pages within a chapter focused on diversity in schools. Additionally, the authors ensure that issues related to culturally relevant school counseling interventions and social justice advocacy are not only a stand-alone chapter of import but rather woven in a very present way throughout each chapter of the text. The book presents current issues that have impacted the field of education such as Anti-Racism and Virtual Counseling to acknowledge issues that have and will continue to impact our work as school counselors. Chapters include case studies and discussion questions to prompt students to apply covered content. The practical application portion of each text allow the instructors to provide guidance for future practicum and internship students regarding how to apply what they have learned. The online instructor’s manual includes a slide show that can be used as is or edited to include additional content per faculty discretion. The test bank portion includes multiple choice, true or false, and short answer questions and may be used for formative or evaluative purposes. Links to online resources to augment chapter content are included in the manual to allow for students to begin building a toolbox of useful resources available for use within the program and as new professionals.

This innovative text guides gerontology students step-by-step through the process of searching for, securing, and completing an aging-based internship, practicum, or field placement. It underscores the value of hands-on, community-based learning and provides a framework for identifying experiences that fit a student's academic requirements and professional objectives. The text describes the multitude of interdisciplinary and interprofessional career opportunities available for those working with or on behalf of older adults, ranging from traditional opportunities in health and human services to careers in leisure, business, housing, and finance.

This book serves as a clinical guide to assist clinicians in prescribing psychotropic medications to address mental health conditions. It is used to assist clinicians to understand the key aspects of psychopharmacology. This is the first practical guide for novice and experienced nurse practitioners for explaining and choosing appropriate psychiatric medications. This clinical reference is ideal for students and all clinically oriented healthcare professionals since it provides concise, bulleted-style text for easy access to pertinent information. The book offers readers a broad understanding of the key aspects of psychotropic medications used in general psychiatry and primary-care settings and includes strategies to ease medication decision-making and evidence-based best practices to select and manage psychotropic medications. It is organized into two parts. Part I begins with an overview of general pharmacological principles and a brief overview of neurotransmitters, and covers the rationale for medication use and the risks and benefits of the major classes of psychotropic medications. Part II includes medications across drug classes that are divided by age population and includes practice management strategies, safety considerations, drug interactions, identification of side effects and adverse reactions, basic laboratory test recommendations, treatment options, and self-management strategies. The book ends with important concepts for patient and/or caregiver education and advocacy. It is intended for clinical healthcare providers, including physicians, nurses, APRNs, and other healthcare clinicians who need a practice guide, test review, or clinical resource guide that is easy to access and use.

This comprehensive introductory text for counselors-in-training delivers foundational concepts through the lens of advocacy and intersectionality. This book emphasizes exploration of the individual and collective effect of local, national, and global social issues on clients and their communities, and imparts real-world experiences from authors and clinical experts who provide personal accounts of challenges and successes in their practices.

The text examines key evidence-based counseling theories with an in-depth focus on trauma-informed counseling, and prompts reflection and dialogue about critical issues in counselor development. It introduces specific counseling micro-skills, techniques, and modalities, and describes the varied settings in which counselors can practice. Engaging activities that foster self-analysis and self-actualization illuminate the path to becoming a professional counselor.