Advancing your career in counseling or psychology /
This book is intended to assist current graduate students; those interested in a graduate degree in the fields of counseling and psychology and those who have graduated from a graduate program in counseling and psychology gain the information necessary to choose the appropriate career path.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, [New York] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) :
Momentum Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Educational psychology collection.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Earning your doctorate in counseling or psychology / Rhonda Jeter-Twilley
- Consider the end at the beginning
- PH.D., ED.D, & PSY, what's the difference?
- Clinical psychology, counseling psychology, and counselor education: what's the difference?
- Related fields: doctorate in family therapy, doctorate in social work
- Aspects for consideration prior to starting your doctoral program
- Academic issues in selecting a program/questions you should know to ask
- 2. The importance of the family therapist / Rosalyn Greene
- Introduction
- Brief history of family counseling/therapy
- Counseling today's changing family
- Family resiliency
- Counseling the single-parent-led family
- Counseling the remarried family
- Counseling cohabitating heterosexual adults
- Counseling gay male and lesbian families
- Counseling the dual-career family
- Counseling ethnically diverse minority families
- Credentials and licensing
- 3. How to create a family education center / Cubie Bragg
- Introduction
- Design and establishment of a family education center
- Development of a board of directors
- Officers
- Committees
- Execution of instruments, deposits and funds
- Corporate records, reports and seal
- Inspection rights
- Right to copy and make extracts
- Amendment of bylaws
- Construction and terms
- 4. Understanding the impact of cultural differences in your practice / Jake Johnson
- Self-understanding
- Training and education
- Collectivistic versus individualistic
- Assessment of clients across-culture
- 5. Ethics and legal issues in therapy / Henry Raymond
- Making ethical decisions
- Briefing guide/informed consent
- Confidentiality, privileged communication and privacy
- Dangerousness and appropriate diagnoses
- Managing clients with HIV/Aids and confidentiality
- About the authors
- Index.