The Counselor Educator's Survival Guide

Designing and Teaching Outstanding Courses in Community Mental Health Counseling and School Counseling

Kathryn C MacCluskie editor Dilani M Perera-Diltz editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:25th Oct '11

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

The Counselor Educator's Survival Guide cover

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.

"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

ISBN: 9780415875899

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 820g

358 pages