Routledge Beginning Your Counseling Career: Graduate Preparation and Beyond

Beginning Your Counseling Career provides a comprehensive overview of the counseling profession and equips students with the clinical and administrative skills they need to progress in the field. Helpfully organized into five sections, the text addresses basic career considerations and preparatory aspects of the profession, as well as a range of topics to help students broaden their focus on professional development. Chapters cover areas including online masters and doctoral programs, developing a counseling identity, mentoring students for private practice, supporting minority students in counseling programs, considerations for international students, special education legislation, and more. Suitable for students taking preliminary courses in counseling as well as practicum and internship classes, Beginning Your Counseling Career offers a detailed and up-to-date framework for aspiring professional counselors at both masters and doctoral levels. Review "Bravo to Dr. Mary Olufunmilayo Adekson and all the contributors of Beginning Your Counseling Career. The authors take the reader on a comprehensive journey, from applying to graduate school to beginning private practice. This book is the much-needed road map for successfully navigating each step in the process of becoming a counselor while maintaining balance in one’s life. It is a tool for reducing the anxiety inherent in the process, particularly for first generation students. This book is a gift, a guiding light to accompany future counselors and new professionals to the end of the academic tunnel and well into their professional careers. I wish this phenomenal counselor GPS had been available 30 years ago! It is definitely a must read for every counseling student." -- Kellie N. Kirksey, PhD, LPCC-S, holistic psychotherapist, The Cleveland Clinic Center for Integrative and Lifestyle Medicine  "Beginning Your Counseling Career provides a framework for advanced undergraduates, beginning counseling students, and future counselor educators to appreciate and understand the process of professional identity development. This well-written edited book answers common student questions and covers a number of issues important in navigating a counselor training program. Each chapter is written by counselors and graduate students with practical experience in the credentialing process. Anyone interested in the counseling profession should begin with this book." -- Jacqueline Smith, EdD, program director and department chair, School of Psychology and Counseling, Regent University, Virginia; CACREP board member "This is a much-needed book. Beginning Your Counseling Career provides students with valuable and useful information that will help them make informed decisions as a student, future practitioner, or counselor educator." -- Hank Harris, PhD, professor and departmental chair, Department of Counseling, University of North Carolina at Charlotte "For those considering a professional counseling career, current graduate students, or early professionals, this book is an essential resource that allows individuals to take a broad view of their career while learning some tricks of the counseling trade. Dr. Mary Olufunmilayo Adekson has brought together noteworthy contributors to address the needs of all, including minority and international students. The book’s discussions on the interests of those specializing in school counseling, mental health counseling, and those preparing for masters and doctoral studies bring out the best in the counseling profession." -- Michael D. Brubaker, PhD, associate professor and program coordinator, UC Counseling Program, University of Cincinnati, Ohio "Beginning Your Counseling Career is a ‘how to’ book for potential students, including international students and students of color looking for guidance on how to navigate the graduate student process at the masters level and further their education at the doctoral level. This