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ACA 2011 Publications Catalog (Adobe PDF - 2.6MB)
New Counseling Texts From ACA!
Ethics Desk Reference for Counselors
Jeffrey E. Barnett and W. Brad Johnson
This essential pocket guide is designed to help counselors interpret and apply the ACA Code of Ethics in order to prevent and resolve ethical dilemmas. In Part I, Drs. Barnett and Johnson provide an easily understood translation of each Standard of the Code, followed by a discussion of common challenges associated with the Standard and a list of recommendations for maintaining ethical, preventive practice in the topical area. Part II contains an ethical decision-making model and specific, practical strategies for responding to frequently faced concerns surrounding culture and diversity, confidentiality, suicidal clients, boundary issues and multiple relationships, competence, supervision, managed care, termination, and responses to subpoenas. A list of recommended resources is included to assist counselors in preventing ethical conflicts and to respond to them effectively if they do arise. Clear and concise, this desk reference is an indispensable tool that counselors and students will refer to time and time again to ensure ethical practice and offer best practice services to their clients.
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Clinical Supervision in the Helping Professions, Second Edition
Gerald Corey, Robert Hayes, Patrice Moulton, Michelle Muratori
This straightforward guide for new and practicing supervisors emphasizes the attainment of skills necessary to effectively supervise others in a variety of settings. Topics covered include the roles and responsibilities of supervisors, the supervisory relationship, models and methods of supervision, becoming a multiculturally competent supervisor, ethical and legal issues in supervision, managing crisis situations, and evaluation in supervision. User-friendly tips, case examples, sample forms, questions for reflection, and group activities are included throughout the text, as are contributing supervisors' Voices From the Field and the authors' Personal Perspectives-making this an interactive learning tool that is sure to keep readers interested and involved.
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Developing Clinical Skills in Substance Abuse Counseling
Daniel Yalisove
This skill-building primer provides a framework for understanding substance abuse and teaches the basic concepts and skills necessary for effective counseling of clients with substance use disorders. In Part I, Dr. Yalisove discusses counselor roles and the fundamental principles of substance abuse counseling. He then provides a synopsis of several key substance abuse theories as well as his own Building Session Goals and Strategies method and the Eight Stage Process of Counseling approach, all of which are practical, compatible means for learning and mastering clinical counseling skills. Part II illustrates applications of the tenets of these approaches in clinical situations-from beginning counseling sessions through termination-using experiential exercises, role-plays, and clinical scenario examples. Chapters on group work, counseling clients with dual disorders, family counseling, and working with diverse client populations follow. A helpful chapter on creating client treatment plans and writing clinical reports rounds out the book. Dr. Yalisove's clear and concise writing style and his practical approach to developing critical thinking and counseling skills makes this an ideal supplemental text for addictions courses.
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Creating Your Professional Path
Gerald Corey
In this inspirational book for graduate students and new counselors, Gerald Corey writes about personal and professional experiences throughout his 50-year career as a counselor, teacher, counselor educator, psychologist, supervisor, and writer. He shares recommendations and lessons he has learned-and is still learning-as a way to mentor other professionals and to promote self-reflection about creating one's own professional path. In addition, 18 graduate students and new professionals share stories from their journeys, describe challenges they have faced, discuss what was helpful to them in pursuing their career path, and provide recommendations for getting the most from educational experiences.
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ACA Advocacy Competencies: A Social Justice Framework
Manivong J. Ratts, Rebecca L. Toporek, Judith A. Lewis
Experts discuss how counselors, counselor educators, and students can use the ideals in the ACA Advocacy Competencies with diverse client populations (people of color, clients living in poverty, people with disabilities, LGBTQ individuals, older persons), across various counseling settings (K-12, private practice, colleges and universities, counselor education and supervision), and in multiple specialty areas (group work, career counseling, rehabilitation, substance abuse counseling). Examples in each chapter provide guidance as to when individual empowerment counseling is sufficient or when situations call for advocacy on behalf of clients or their communities within the public arena or political domain. Thought provoking and engaging, this book is an invaluable resource for teaching and course work and a call for all counselors to participate in social justice and systems change
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Terrorism, Trauma and Tragedies, Third Edition
edited by Jane Webber and J. Barry Mascari
The field of disaster mental health has evolved substantially since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001-as has this book. First published in 2002 to share how counseling professionals responded to the acts of terrorism as well as the shootings at Columbine High School and other traumatic events, this book has been almost completely revised to reflect more recent tragedies and the dramatic growth in knowledge and experience within the field of disaster mental health that has followed.
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Competencies