Orientation to the Counseling Profession: Advocacy, Ethics, and Essential Professional Foundations » (New Edition)

Bradley T Erford, Ph.D., LCPC, NCC, is a professor in the school counseling program at Loyola University with primary teaching responsibilities in assessment, research, and lifespan development. He has held numerous professional leadership positions and published numerous books, articles and book chapters.

Current and innovative, Orientation to the Counseling Profession provides students with a comprehensive overview of the major tenets of the counseling profession, including advocacy and multicultural counseling, licensure, professional associations, ethical and legal issues, consultation, supervision, outcomes research, and counseling process with diverse applications across the lifespan, settings, and specialties.

This first edition text focuses on the new counselor preparation initiatives that expose counselors-in-training to essential current and future practices that are missing from the current texts on the market. While many comparable introductory counseling orientation texts approach the field from a dated perspective and more of a global “helping professions” perspective, Orientation to the Counseling Profession, on the other hand, emphasizes new counselor preparation initiatives including: professional identity that focuses on ACA and its divisions, branches and affiliates as the core entities of the counseling field; advocacy counseling, professional advocacy; accountability in counseling; and knowledge of outcomes research.

Brief Table of Contents

Section I: Foundations of Professional Counselor Identity

Chapter 1 Becoming a Professional Counselor: Philosophical, Historical and Future Considerations by Susan H. Eaves, Bradley T. Erford, and Mardi Fallon

Chapter 2 Professional Counseling: Associations, Licensure, Certification and Accreditation by Joshua Watson, Bradley T. Erford, Katie Tasch, David Kaplan, and Grafton T. Eliason

Chapter 3 Ethical and Legal Issues in Counseling by Lynn Linde, Bradley T. Erford, and Amy Cheung

Section II: Counseling Processes and Approaches

Chapter 4 Theories of Counseling by Dana Heller Levitt and Alissa Bray

Chapter 5 The Counseling Process by Donna Starkey Sheperis and Cyrus Ellis

Chapter 6 Counseling Skills by Joseph Cooper

Chapter 7 Multicultural Counseling by Danica G. Hays and Geneva Gray

Chapter 8 Consultation and Supervision by Mark Young and Alan Basham

Chapter 9 Settings and Counseling Career Choices by Nadine Garner, James P. Valle, and Nichole Hinkle

Section III: Client Issues and Advocacy

Chapter 10 Issues Specific to Working with Clients across the Life Span by Ann Vernon

Chapter 11 Assessment, Case Conceptualization, Diagnosis, and Treatment Planning by Gail Mears

Chapter 12 Client Issues by Catharine Y. Chang and Amy McLeod

Chapter 13 Advocating for the Counseling Profession by Amy Milsom

Chapter 14 Advocacy Counseling by Donna Gibson

Section IV: Accountability in Counseling

Chapter 15 Accountability in Counseling by Bradley T. Erford

Chapter 16 Outcome Research in Counseling by Susan H. Eaves and Bradley T. Erford