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December, 2010 | SAGE Publications, Inc

Handbook of Counselor Preparation

Constructivist, Developmental, and Experiential Approaches


Garrett J. McAuliffe
- Old Dominion University, USA
Karen Patrice Eriksen
- Eriksen Institute for Ethics
ACES
464 pages | December, 2010 | SAGE Publications, Inc
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Published in cooperation with the Association of Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES)

This definitive single-volume guide is the first of its kind on teaching and developing counselor educator programs that embrace constructivist and developmental theory. Leading scholars and experts offer practical advice on teaching courses in every area of counseling practice. As a result, the book is ideal for current and future counselor educators and supervisors as well as faculty in other helping professions. The authors seek to inspire educators to empower and involve, to risk "losing control" over subject matter, to hear student voices, to pose dilemmas, and to challenge their own assumptions in the presence of their students using constructivist, developmental, and experiential thinking and strategies.

Dear Instructors,

Sage and ACES are pleased to announce that we together have published the first comprehensive guide to educating future counselors in the form of the Handbook of Counselor Preparation: Constructivist, Developmental, and Experiential Approaches, which has been co-edited by Garrett McAuliffe and Karen Eriksen, with contributions from leading counselor educators from two countries. In this book you will find rich, accessible guides to teaching in general and to teaching specific courses in the counseling curriculum. From foundations in constructivist teaching, including guides to the seminal works of Dewey and Kohlberg, to suggestions for teaching and student evaluation practices, the Handbook will function as the fundamental text for your course. We hope you will adopt this first-of-a-kind text for this course.

Sage Publications, Inc.
ACES
Garrett McAuliffe and Karen Eriksen

Preface
PART I: FOUNDATIONS: CONSTRUCTIVISM, DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, AND TEACHING
1: Constructing Counselor Education
2: Deep Learning: The Work of Dewey, Kohlberg, and Kolb
3: Guidelines for Constructivist-Developmental Counselor Education
4: Who Are the Learners? Phases of Counselor Development
5: A Primer on Six Key Teaching Strategies: Lecturing, Discussion, Questioning, Small Groups, Reading and Writing, and Improvisation
PART II: A GUIDE TO INDIVIDUAL COURSES AND TOPICS IN THE COUNSELOR EDUCATION CURRICULUM
6: Teaching Introduction to Counseling
7: Constructing the Counseling Skills Course-
8: Teaching Theories for the Constructivist Counselor
9: Teaching Assessment and Testing
10: Teaching Group Counseling: A Constructivist Approach
11: Teaching Research Methods for Counselors
12: Teaching Social and Cultural Issues in Counseling
13: Teaching Lifespan Development
14: Teaching Career Development
15: Creating Courses in Constructivist Supervision
16: Creating Constructivist Courses in Practicum and Internship
17: Teaching the Diagnosis and Treatment Planning Course
18: Teaching Counseling Children and Adolescents
19: Teaching Family Counseling
20: School Counseling Preparation Within a Constructivist Framework
21: Teaching Community Agency/Mental Health Counseling and Crisis Intervention
22: Teaching Substance Abuse/Addictions Counseling
PART III: INNOVATIVE PROGRAM PRACTICES

24: The Use of Technology in Counselor Education and Supervision
25: Narrative/Post-Modern Perspectives on Counselor Education
PART IV: CONCLUSIONS
26: Implementing Constructivist Counselor Education: Pushing the Zone of Proximal Development
Teaching Introduction to Counseling
Teaching Theories for the Constructivist Counselor
Teaching Assessment and Testing
Teaching Group Counseling: A Constructivist Approach
Teaching Research Methods for Counselors
Teaching Social and Cultural Issues in Counseling
Teaching Lifespan Development
Creating Courses in Constructivist Supervision
Creating Constructivist Courses in Practicum and Internship
Teaching the Diagnosis and Treatment Planning Course
Teaching Counseling Children and Adolescents
Teaching Family Counseling
School Counseling Preparation Within a Developmental Constructivist Framework
Teaching Community Agency/Mental Health Counseling and Crisis Intervention
Teaching Substance Abuse/Addictions Counseling
What Do Students Know and What Can They Do? Assessing Competence in Counselor Education
The Use of Technology in Counselor Education
Narrative/Post-Modern Perspectives on Counselor Education
Teaching Career Development
Constructing Counselor Education
Foundations for Teaching and Learning: The Work of Dewey, Kohlberg, and Kolb
Who Are the Learners? Phases of Counselor Development
A Primer on Six Key Teaching Strategies: Lecturing, Discussions, Reading, Writing, Small Group Discussion, and Improvisations
Teaching Counseling Skills

Key Features:

  • Coverage of the foundations of constructivist and developmental teaching with principles and research in Part One includes the pedagogies of the classic thinkers in the teaching field, namely John Dewey, Lawrence Kohlberg, and David Kolb, explicit guidelines for teaching practice, an overview of the phases of counselor development, and a primer on six common teaching strategies.
  • Carefully-crafted guides for teaching in 17 content areas in the counselor education curriculum meets the teacher's needs with practical "how to" information in Part Two.
  • Innovative ideas for counselor education in Part Three offer readers keys to evaluating outcomes in counselor education, expanding technology in the field, and boldly infusing narrative theory into counselor education.
  • Chapter Exercises in constructivist, developmental, and experiential approaches give readers an opportunity to apply what they have just learned.