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School Counseling for the Twenty-First Century, 4/E
Stanley B. Baker, North Carolina State University
Edwin R. Gerler, Jr., North Carolina State University

ISBN-10: 0130494852
ISBN-13: 9780130494856

Publisher: Merrill
Copyright: 2004
Format: Cloth; 464 pp
Status: Out of Print

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For introductory courses in the Counseling profession.

This comprehensive text takes a balanced approach to presenting the full range of competencies required of professional school counselors. It examines the role of the counselor in today's schools, highlighting the need for counselors to be able to help students learn to function in a society characterized by rapid change, the use of technology, and a global economy. Coverage is built around eleven key competencies, which are carefully tied to three of the most important current initiatives in the school counseling field. Unique to the text is its position as the foundation for the School Counseling Activities Network (www.scan21st.com), which brings graduate students, professors, and practicing school counselors together through the Internet; all components of the text are integrated with this Web site.

  • NEW - Opening chapter introduces three current school counseling initiatives: ASCA National Model for School Counseling Programs, the Educational Trust Training Initiative, and the School-Community Collaboration Model —Content of subsequent chapters is then clearly tied to each initiative.

    • Illustrates the commonality of counseling—helps students see that the text's competencies span all three initiatives, as well as being applicable to any counseling program.

  • NEW - New or revised chapters on advocacy, leadership, and collaboration—Incorporating the latest research and theories in the field and addressing the role of these functions in contemporary counseling.

    • Ensures students see these competencies in light of today's counseling expectations—highlights their role in supporting the text-advocated balance between prevention and remedies.

  • NEW - The School Counseling Activities Network (www.scan21st.com) supplement—Uses the Internet to encourage dialogue and networking among graduate students, their professors, practicing school counselors, and other students.

    • Bridges the gap between studying to be a counselor and doing school counseling—puts students in touch with the same questions, and practicing counselors who can help them find answers.

  • Balanced approach to school counseling—Portraying counseling as part prevention programming and part response to needs.

    • Encourages students to nurture their skills in both areas—helps them understand these elements are two parts of a whole, rather than as mutually exclusive roles.

  • Eleven chapters on fundamental competencies—Ranging from consulting and referring, through information processing and advocacy, to leadership, collaboration, and accountability.

    • Assists future counselors to see how competencies that are taught in a variety of graduate courses fit together to create a ’competency paradigm’—creates a foundation on which students can build knowledge and skills toward becoming a counseling professional.

  • Final chapter devoted to the career of school counseling.

    • Humanizes the profession for those who will soon enter it—assists readers to visualize how they fit into the system, and to prepare for the transition from student to counselor.

  • Chapter-opening vignettes—Presenting school counseling in realistic settings.

    • Brings counseling out of the academic realm and into the real world of children, classes, conflicts, and challenges—gives future counselors a realistic picture of what's ahead for them.

  • Online lessons—Accompanies each chapter.

    • Offers opportunities for students to reflect on what they have learned and share it with other students via projects created through the Web site (www.scan21st.com).

  • Opening chapter introduces three current school counseling initiatives: ASCA National Model for School Counseling Programs, the Educational Trust Training Initiative, and the School-Community Collaboration Model —Content of subsequent chapters is then clearly tied to each initiative.

    • Illustrates the commonality of counseling—helps students see that the text's competencies span all three initiatives, as well as being applicable to any counseling program.

  • New or revised chapters on advocacy, leadership, and collaboration—Incorporating the latest research and theories in the field and addressing the role of these functions in contemporary counseling.

    • Ensures students see these competencies in light of today's counseling expectations—highlights their role in supporting the text-advocated balance between prevention and remedies.

  • The School Counseling Activities Network (www.scan21st.com) supplement—Uses the Internet to encourage dialogue and networking among graduate students, their professors, practicing school counselors, and other students.

    • Bridges the gap between studying to be a counselor and doing school counseling—puts students in touch with the same questions, and practicing counselors who can help them find answers.



 1. Emergence of the School Counseling Profession.


 2. A Balanced Approach to School Counseling.


 3. Legal and Ethical Responsibilities in School Counseling.


 4. Prevention Programming in School Counseling.


 5. Counseling in Schools.


 6. Consulting in School Counseling. 


 7. Referring and Coordinating in School Counseling.


 8. Helping Students Acquire and Process Information.


 9. Providing Transition Assistance in School Counseling.


10. Assessment in School Counseling.


11. Advocacy in School Counseling.


12. Leadership and Collaboration in School Counseling.


13. Accountability in School Counseling.


14. Beyond the Training Program: A School Counselor Career.


Appendices.


A: Key Components of the National Standards for School Counseling: American School Counseling Association.


B: Lesson Outlines for "Succeeding in School Online".


C: American Counseling Association Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice.


D: Ethical Standards for School Counselors: American School Counselor Association.


E: Multicultural Counseling Standards.


F: Opinion Surveys Developed by Counselors in the State College, Pennsylvania, Area School District.


G: Erie Data Cards.

Indexes.

    Upon opening this textbook for the first time and glancing at the table of contents, students are presented with chapter titles that reflect all the crucial subject matter of what it takes to be a school counselor.  Examples of national models and paradigms, all designed to make the profession manageable and understandable, are on display throughout the book.  The authors have incorporated the human side of school counseling at the core of every chapter, hoping not to block the spirit of caring for people by what at first glance might appear to be academic jargon.

     

    This book is designed as a means for graduate students and others to lend their voices to the issues confronting school counselors and, most importantly, to chart the course for invention in school counseling.  The authors believe that the school counseling profession is enriched when the voices of aspiring professionals meet the voices of experience, with the aim of creating new ways to serve. 

  • 0131890379School Counseling for the 21st Century, 5/E
    Baker & Gerler
    © 2008 | Merrill | Cloth; 448 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0131890379 | ISBN-13: 9780131890374
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