Chadwick W. Royal – författare

Providing counseling professionals with a solid grounding in the primary theories, skills, and models used by professional consultants, Counselor as Consultant is the first text that explicitly addresses the new CACREP core standards for consultation. The book’s strong focus on intentionality, reflection, and wellness helps readers develop a strong sense of counselor identity, while its structure and exercises reinforce learning. Abundant exercises and case illustrations help counselors-in-training translate theory into practice and learn the essential skills needed for consultation positions.

Career Counseling: An Anthology of Relevant Career Counseling Research shows students the unique and important role a career counselor can play in the lives of clients seeking employment-related advice and direction. The engaging readings and thought-provoking discussion questions within the anthology address a spectrum of issues that are relevant to today's career professional.Over the course of nine chapters, students will learn about the internal and external factors that can influence career choice, a brief history of career counseling in the United States, key career counseling theory, and how to successfully utilize career assessments and interest inventories with clients. Dedicated chapters examine ethical standards, diversity, and technology in career counseling. Students are provided with readings that explore career counseling resources, career choices across the lifespan, and practice within the school setting. Each chapter features an introduction, insightful readings, discussion questions, key terms, and suggested further reading.Designed to serve as a supplemental resource for textbooks in the discipline, Career Counseling is well suited for courses in career counseling, counselor education, counseling, student affairs, psychology, and social work.

The Clinician's Handbook: Essential Knowledge for Mental Health Professionals provides readers with a working familiarity with a range of topics that clinicians in schools, private practice, and community agencies, as well as other mental health settings, are likely to confront at some point in their careers. The text reviews essential topics that enhance professional competence and confidence, offers information about various treatment approaches, and includes recommendations for additional resources.Readers learn about treating clients who've experienced sexual abuse, self-harm, eating disorders, issues related to LGBTQIA+ identity, suicidal thoughts, tendencies, or actions, trauma and violence, grief and bereavement, homelessness, and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction, followed by an authentic case study, as well as content that covers prevalence, developmental influences, digital media, assessment, treatment options and considerations, issues of diversity, counselor issues, and ethical concerns.Providing readers with a complete and holistic understanding of contemporary issues related to mental health and how to treat them, The Clinician's Handbook is an exemplary resource for counseling courses and programs at the graduate level, new-to-the-field clinicians, clinical supervisors, and skilled clinicians interested in expanding their knowledge and skillsets.This text was previously published as Essential Topics for the Helping Professional by Pearson.