Field Experience

Transitioning From Student to Professional
Naijian Zhang
Richard D. Parsons
Counseling and Professional Identity
Field Experience
February 2015 | 400 pages | Sage US
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Description

A blueprint for doing clinical work in field experience, this practical book aids students in developing their professional identity on their journey toward becoming a counselor. Authors Naijian Zhang and Richard D. Parsons help students integrate the knowledge they learn across the curriculum by presenting a roadmap of how to start, navigate, and finish a practicum or internship. Throughout the book, coverage of CACREP standards, case illustrations, exercises, and real-life examples create an accessible overview of the entire transitioning process.

Field Experience is part of the SAGE Counseling and Professional Identity Series, which targets specific competencies identified by CACREP (Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Programs). To learn more about each text in the series, please visit www.sagepub.com/cpiseries. 



Contents

Chapter 1: Field Experience as Formative to Professional Identity

  • Field Experience: A Unique Learning Experience
  • Field Work: Fostering an Emerging Professional Identity
  • Nurturing Your Professional Identity
  • Postscript

Chapter 2: Matching Self to Site

  • It Starts With Self-Appraisal
  • Assessing Field Placement Options
  • Matching Self to Site: Targeting Professional Development

Chapter 3: From the Ideal to the Real

  • Knowing the Ideal
  • The Real Is Often Less Than Ideal
  • Even Interns Can Effect Change and Define Roles

Chapter 4: The Ethics of Practice: More Than Knowing, Being

  • The Need and Value of Professional Ethics
  • The What: In Principle
  • From the Ideal to the Real

Chapter 5: Reflecting on Practice

  • Reflecting on Practice: Case Conceptualization
  • Reflecting in Practice: Guiding Moment-to-Moment Decisions
  • Reflective Practice: Supporting Efficacy and Accountability
  • Reflection: For Professional Development

Chapter 6: Growing Through Supervision

  • Counseling Supervision
  • Expectations of Counseling Supervision
  • Issues and Dilemmas in Supervision

Chapter 7: Multicultural Counseling in Practice

  • Multiculturalism in Counseling
  • Multicultural Counseling Competence
  • Developing Multicultural Counseling Competence
  • Multicultural Counseling Competence and Professional Identity

Chapter 8: Crisis Prevention and Intervention: Suicide and Homicide

  • The Nature of Crisis and Crisis Intervention
  • Suicide
  • When Harm Is Other Directed
  • Site Policy on Crisis Procedures

Chapter 9: Reducing Risk

  • The Risk of Physical Harm
  • Reducing Legal Risks
  • Postscript

Chapter 10: Documentation and Record Keeping

  • Purpose of Documentation and Record Keeping
  • Ethical and Legal Ramifications
  • The “What” of Case Documentation
  • The “How,” or Format, of Case Documentation
  • Concluding Thoughts

Chapter 11: Termination and Closure

  • Terminating the Counseling Relationship
  • Challenges to Effective and Ethical Termination
  • Steps Toward Effective and Ethical Termination
  • Terminating Other Relationships at Internship

Chapter 12: Self-Care and Self-Protection—Necessary for All Counselors

  • Counseling: Challenging the Well-Being of the Counselor
  • Burnout
  • Compassion Fatigue

Chapter 13: Transition from Practice to Career

  • Connection Between Internship and Career
  • Preparation for Employment
  • Placement Resources
  • Advanced Education
  • Postscript

Chapter 14: Transitions: Self as Counselor

  • Identity
  • Responding to the Calling
  • With Pride

Additional materials

Description

A blueprint for doing clinical work in field experience, this practical book aids students in developing their professional identity on their journey toward becoming a counselor. Authors Naijian Zhang and Richard D. Parsons help students integrate the knowledge they learn across the curriculum by presenting a roadmap of how to start, navigate, and finish a practicum or internship. Throughout the book, coverage of CACREP standards, case illustrations, exercises, and real-life examples create an accessible overview of the entire transitioning process.

Field Experience is part of the SAGE Counseling and Professional Identity Series, which targets specific competencies identified by CACREP (Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Programs). To learn more about each text in the series, please visit www.sagepub.com/cpiseries. 



Contents

Chapter 1: Field Experience as Formative to Professional Identity

  • Field Experience: A Unique Learning Experience
  • Field Work: Fostering an Emerging Professional Identity
  • Nurturing Your Professional Identity
  • Postscript

Chapter 2: Matching Self to Site

  • It Starts With Self-Appraisal
  • Assessing Field Placement Options
  • Matching Self to Site: Targeting Professional Development

Chapter 3: From the Ideal to the Real

  • Knowing the Ideal
  • The Real Is Often Less Than Ideal
  • Even Interns Can Effect Change and Define Roles

Chapter 4: The Ethics of Practice: More Than Knowing, Being

  • The Need and Value of Professional Ethics
  • The What: In Principle
  • From the Ideal to the Real

Chapter 5: Reflecting on Practice

  • Reflecting on Practice: Case Conceptualization
  • Reflecting in Practice: Guiding Moment-to-Moment Decisions
  • Reflective Practice: Supporting Efficacy and Accountability
  • Reflection: For Professional Development

Chapter 6: Growing Through Supervision

  • Counseling Supervision
  • Expectations of Counseling Supervision
  • Issues and Dilemmas in Supervision

Chapter 7: Multicultural Counseling in Practice

  • Multiculturalism in Counseling
  • Multicultural Counseling Competence
  • Developing Multicultural Counseling Competence
  • Multicultural Counseling Competence and Professional Identity

Chapter 8: Crisis Prevention and Intervention: Suicide and Homicide

  • The Nature of Crisis and Crisis Intervention
  • Suicide
  • When Harm Is Other Directed
  • Site Policy on Crisis Procedures

Chapter 9: Reducing Risk

  • The Risk of Physical Harm
  • Reducing Legal Risks
  • Postscript

Chapter 10: Documentation and Record Keeping

  • Purpose of Documentation and Record Keeping
  • Ethical and Legal Ramifications
  • The “What” of Case Documentation
  • The “How,” or Format, of Case Documentation
  • Concluding Thoughts

Chapter 11: Termination and Closure

  • Terminating the Counseling Relationship
  • Challenges to Effective and Ethical Termination
  • Steps Toward Effective and Ethical Termination
  • Terminating Other Relationships at Internship

Chapter 12: Self-Care and Self-Protection—Necessary for All Counselors

  • Counseling: Challenging the Well-Being of the Counselor
  • Burnout
  • Compassion Fatigue

Chapter 13: Transition from Practice to Career

  • Connection Between Internship and Career
  • Preparation for Employment
  • Placement Resources
  • Advanced Education
  • Postscript

Chapter 14: Transitions: Self as Counselor

  • Identity
  • Responding to the Calling
  • With Pride

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Field Experience

Transitioning From Student to Professional

Naijian Zhang , Richard D. Parsons
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February 2015 | 400 pages | Sage US

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A blueprint for doing clinical work in field experience, this practical book aids students in developing their professional identity on their journey toward becoming a counselor. Authors Naijian Zhang and Richard D. Parsons help students integrate the knowledge they learn across the curriculum by presenting a roadmap of how to start, navigate, and finish a practicum or internship. Throughout the book, coverage of CACREP standards, case illustrations, exercises, and real-life examples create an accessible overview of the entire transitioning process.

Field Experience is part of the SAGE Counseling and Professional Identity Series, which targets specific competencies identified by CACREP (Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Programs). To learn more about each text in the series, please visit www.sagepub.com/cpiseries. 




Table Of Contents:

  • Chapter 1: Field Experience as Formative to Professional Identity
  • Field Experience: A Unique Learning Experience
  • Field Work: Fostering an Emerging Professional Identity
  • Nurturing Your Professional Identity
  • Postscript
  • Chapter 2: Matching Self to Site
  • It Starts With Self-Appraisal
  • Assessing Field Placement Options
  • Matching Self to Site: Targeting Professional Development
  • Chapter 3: From the Ideal to the Real
  • Knowing the Ideal
  • The Real Is Often Less Than Ideal
  • Even Interns Can Effect Change and Define Roles
  • Chapter 4: The Ethics of Practice: More Than Knowing, Being
  • The Need and Value of Professional Ethics
  • The What: In Principle
  • From the Ideal to the Real
  • Chapter 5: Reflecting on Practice
  • Reflecting on Practice: Case Conceptualization
  • Reflecting in Practice: Guiding Moment-to-Moment Decisions
  • Reflective Practice: Supporting Efficacy and Accountability
  • Reflection: For Professional Development
  • Chapter 6: Growing Through Supervision
  • Counseling Supervision
  • Expectations of Counseling Supervision
  • Issues and Dilemmas in Supervision
  • Chapter 7: Multicultural Counseling in Practice
  • Multiculturalism in Counseling
  • Multicultural Counseling Competence
  • Developing Multicultural Counseling Competence
  • Multicultural Counseling Competence and Professional Identity
  • Chapter 8: Crisis Prevention and Intervention: Suicide and Homicide
  • The Nature of Crisis and Crisis Intervention
  • Suicide
  • When Harm Is Other Directed
  • Site Policy on Crisis Procedures
  • Chapter 9: Reducing Risk
  • The Risk of Physical Harm
  • Reducing Legal Risks
  • Postscript
  • Chapter 10: Documentation and Record Keeping
  • Purpose of Documentation and Record Keeping
  • Ethical and Legal Ramifications
  • The “What” of Case Documentation
  • The “How,” or Format, of Case Documentation
  • Concluding Thoughts
  • Chapter 11: Termination and Closure
  • Terminating the Counseling Relationship
  • Challenges to Effective and Ethical Termination
  • Steps Toward Effective and Ethical Termination
  • Terminating Other Relationships at Internship
  • Chapter 12: Self-Care and Self-Protection—Necessary for All Counselors
  • Counseling: Challenging the Well-Being of the Counselor
  • Burnout
  • Compassion Fatigue
  • Chapter 13: Transition from Practice to Career
  • Connection Between Internship and Career
  • Preparation for Employment
  • Placement Resources
  • Advanced Education
  • Postscript
  • Chapter 14: Transitions: Self as Counselor
  • Identity
  • Responding to the Calling
  • With Pride

Recent Product Reviews:

I thought this provided a nice overview of what my students need, although resources are outdated (due to the book being published in 2015) and several of the links were broken. Primarily I LOVE that it is focused on Professional Mental Health Counselors. This is hard to find, and so needed in the field of Counselor Education. Dr. Amanda Minor
Dr Amanda Minor, Holistic Counseling, Salve Regina University
“This text goes above and beyond the ‘typical’ skill building approach to field placement experiences. The emphasis on the development of professional identity will support students as they practice applying what they have learned in a classroom to clinical work in the real world—a transition that can be challenging for many students.”
Britney G. Brinkman, Chatham University
“Wonderful text! The material assists the intern with understanding how to take theoretical skills learned within the academic setting and apply the actual internship practices to the world of work.”
Ann Leonard, Curry College
“Excellent book that will inspire and enlighten evolving professionals.”
Mary Olufunmilayo, St. Bonaventure University

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