Beginning Your Counseling Career : Graduate Preparation and Beyond (Hardcover)

Part I. 1.Getting accepted into a master’s program & getting a graduate assistantship (Kevon Bruce, Tiffany Fuller, and Timothy J. Hakenewerth) 2.The challenges of starting and completing masters level training (Marcus Smith) 3 .Balancing career, graduate school, and family (Colleen Chahal) 4. Online masters in counseling programs (Heather Ambrose) Part II. 5.Applying and getting accepted to a fitting doctoral program (Julius A. Austin & Jude T. Austin II) 6. Doctoral online programs (John A. King & Jonathan Impellizzeri) 7. Benefits and challenges of balancing a professional counseling identity with doctoral studies: The perspectives of current counselor education doctoral students (Alfonso Ferguson, Leanice Smith) 8. Proposing and completing a dissertation (Jude T. Austin II & Julius A. Austin) 9.Writing etiquette for doctoral students (Noelany Pelc) 10. Teaching counseling students the science of research (Jaime Castillo) 11. Recommendations for teaching counseling: From practitioner to counselor educator (Roberto Swazo) Part III. 12.Preparing counseling students for field experience (Le Ann Solmonson) 13. Gaining clinical experience in and after graduate school (Lotes Nelson) 14. Mentoring students for private practice (Judith Miranti) 15.Critical steps in obtaining licensure (Brittany L. Dennis) 16.Becoming a Supervisor (Lynn Bohecker) 17. Counseling identity (Nicole R. Hill, Linwood G. Vereen & Kirsten LaMantia) Part IV. 18. Encouraging minorities in the counseling program (Linwood G. Vereen Brittany Dennis & Stephanie DePalmer) 19. International students and counselor education (Pei-Chun (Olivia) Chen) Part V. 20. Establishing relationships with administrators, faculty and staff as a school counselor (Cynthia Sinesiou & Jessica Henderson) 21.Special Education legislation and protocols for school counseling (Jennifer Coles Hill) 22. School counselors as athletic coaches : Finding a common ground (Anna Elliot & Mark Nelson)