Orientation to the Counseling Profession

Book excerpt: "Orientation to the Counseling Profession: Advocacy, Ethics, and Essential Professional Foundations, Fourth Edition, provides a comprehensive overview of the major tenets of the counseling profession, including advocacy and multicultural counseling, licensure, professional associations, ethical and legal issues, crisis intervention, consultation, supervision, outcome research, and the counseling process, with diverse applications across the life span, settings, and specialties. By contrast, nearly all introductory counseling orientation texts on the market approach the field from a dated and more generic "helping professions" perspective. New counselor preparation initiatives expose counselors in training to essential current and future practices that help students orient to the present and future of counseling practice"--