Counselor Education

This book examines the need for the development of an expanded theoretical foundation of counselor education which will serve to better prepare school counselors for effectively meeting student counseling needs in the 21st century. This process includes a rethinking of meanings and outcomes associated with counselor education, the counseling process, the role of the school counselor, and the political implications embedded in educational counseling. The expanded theoretical framework includes questioning the applicability and relevance-to-practice of current counselor education, a critical analysis of psychological philosophy, investigating the principles behind critical theory, feminist theory, and postmodernism, unveiling exclusionary aspects of current counseling theory and practice. Brotherton calls for a pedagogy of inclusion and fluidity in counselor education that will be capable of handling the issues surrounding diversity, multiplicity, and exclusion that are challenging American schools.

This collection identifies the pressures forcing change, taking into account national and European legislation and the drive from within counselling towards greater professionalism, multiculturalism, competency and accountability.

Preventive Counseling is an updated and revised edition to the 1987 text, Primary Preventive Counseling, a book which was ahead of its time, released when the concepts and practice of preventive counselling were in their infancy. A trailblazer fifteen years ago, Dr. Conyne remains at the forefront of this burgeoning movement and has provided both students and practitioners with a long-overdue second edition. Expanding upon the model developed in the earlier work, this revised edition focuses on 'everyday prevention' techniques that allow practitioners to quickly and seamlessly integrate prevention into their existing practice. A new section devoted to the applications of preventive counselling has been added, and the text now features an integrative approach to prevention and treatment. Written for both students and practitioners alike, this wholly updated and revised edition is sure to become a standard resource within the growing field of counselling psychology.