Professional Counseling Excellence through Leadership and Advocacy

Product Description
Professional Counseling Excellence through Leadership and Advocacy provides readers with the knowledge, skills, and qualities to succeed as leaders and advocates throughout their careers.
Edited by leaders in counselor education and endorsed by Chi Sigma Iota, this text places leadership and advocacy in a historical context while strengthening the foundational knowledge and skills counselors need. The new edition integrates the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCCs) and applies them to a variety of counseling settings at both local and state levels. Chapters also address leadership and design of effective counselor education programs, curricular implications, supervision and consultation, and research directions.
The new edition is designed for counselor educators and supervisors and doctoral-level counselor education students who are studying leadership and advocacy as one of five core areas within the 2016 CACREP standards and for master’s level students and practitioners who are growing their leadership and advocacy skills.
Review
"The editors are to be commended for this book’s breadth, depth, and clarity. They engaged experts to freshly address critically important topics not only to the profession’s relevance in society today but to those whom we seek to serve. They enlighten and challenge readers using proven advocacy strategies for social justice while raising aspirations from merely fixing those in need to servant leadership in promoting wellness and human dignity across the life span. This is not a book to sell at the end of the term. It’s a keeper for beginners and seasoned professionals alike." ― Thomas J. Sweeney, PhD, professor emeritus, The Ohio University, founding chair, CACREP, and past president, ACA, ACES, and CSI
"As a leading resource on leadership and advocacy in the counseling profession, this second edition continues to be a textbook that offers insight into historical, current, and future implications for students, practitioners, and counselor educators. With exercises, activities, and discussion questions to use individually and with groups, the authors establish an impetus for leading and advocating for clients and for the profession as a central aspect of a counselor's professional identity." ― Donna M. Gibson, PhD, LPC, NCC, professor and chair, Virginia Commonwealth University
"This textbook is engaging, practical, and inspiring. The content provides readers with an in-depth discussion of leadership, professional advocacy, and client advocacy in a way that is relevant to counseling students and practitioners. As a counselor educator, I find this textbook to be an essential tool to address leadership and advocacy in the counseling curriculum." ― Peggy L. Ceballos, PhD, associate professor, Department of Counseling and Higher Education, University of North Texas
About the Author
Catherine Y. Chang, PhD, LPC, NCC, CPCS, is a professor at Georgia State University, where she is also director of International Programs for the College of Education and Human Development.
Casey A. Barrio Minton, PhD, NCC, is professor of counselor education and Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program coordinator at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.