Professional School Counseling : A Handbook of Theories, Programs, & Practices – Second Edition
Edited by Bradley T. Erford

Professional School Counseling, Second Edition, is a comprehensive, single source for information about the critical issues facing school counselors today. The Handbook integrates and expands upon the changes brought about by the ASCA National Model. Several new chapters have been added to give further substance and clarification to implementation of the model. A searchable reference file is available on a CD-ROM. With over 100 expert contributing authors and 96 chapters, this volume is the essential tool for all school counselors, counselor educators, and counselor supervisors.

PRO-ED# 12705
ISBN: 9781416404354
1022 pages • ©2010 • 8.5 x 11 • softcover • References CD

The Accountable School Counselor -- Second Edition
Larry C. Loesch and Martin H. Ritchie

This text addresses the critical need for today's school counselors to be accountable. Straight to the point and practical, The Accountable School Counselor demonstrates understanding of the demands on school counselors. Designed for easy implementation, this book offers resources, specific measures, and a system useful for counselors who are intent on achieving the benefits of accountability. The authors have expertly taken the ASCA National Model and developed a guide for easy implementation of accountability measures.

PRO-ED# 12611
ISBN: 9781416403807
275 pages

Professional School Counseling : A Handbook of Theories, Programs, & Practices
Edited by Bradley T. Erford

Professional School Counseling is a comprehensive, single source for information about the urgent issues facing school counselors today.

PRO-ED# 11931
894 pages

Strengths-Based Career Development for School Guidance and Counseling Programs
Norman C. Gysbers and Richard T. Lapan

This publication is a first of its kind – a must for anyone concerned with career development programs in schools.  In each of the three major sections (Historical and Theoretical Foundations; An Organizational Framework and Evidence-Based Activities; and Designing, Delivering, Evaluating, and Advocating for Strengths-Based Career Development in Schools), numerous references are made to implementing the program within the ASCA Model.

PRO-ED# 12341
ACA Order #: 72890
Also available through ASCA
ISBN: 978-0-9795668-3-7
239 pages

Empowering the 21st Century Professional School Counselor
Edited by Jackie M. Allen

Drawing from the insights of our most knowledgeable professional school counselors and counselor educators, this book lays out in clear and specific detail what school counselors need to do to meet the needs of today’s K-12 students. Eminently practical and useful for counselors and counselor educators alike, each chapter provides exercises and discussion questions that will assist the reader to acquire future-oriented insights and skills that can be put to immediate use.

PRO-ED# 13031
Also available through ASCA
ISBN: 9780979566820

Knowledge Nomads and the Nervously Employed : Workplace Change & Courageous Career Choices
Rich Feller and Judy Whichard

Scholarly, practical, and highly readable, Knowledge Nomads and the Nervously Employed explores the abilities and personal traits an individual needs in order to maintain living-wage employment in the developing global economy.

PRO-ED# 11933
150 pages

Family Matters: The Influence of the Family in Career Decision Making,
Robert C. Chope

Family Matters places the family 'front and center' as one of the premier influences in career decision making.

PRO-ED# 10578
150 pages

Distance Counseling: Expanding the Counselor's Reach
James Malone, Randy Miller, & Garry Walz

ACA Order #: 72864
Also available through NCDA
ISBN: 978-0-9795668-0-6
200 Pages

The Accountable School Counselor
Larry C. Loesch and Martin H. Ritchie

This text addresses the critical need for today's school counselors to be accountable. Straight to the point and practical, The Accountable School Counselor demonstrates understanding of the demands on school counselors.

PRO-ED# 11932
145 pages

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Rehabilitation Counseling: An Empowerment Strategy
Amos Sales

This innovative text presents a new consumer-rehabilitation counseling partnership by integrating concepts from career development, psychology of empowerment, and rehabilitation counseling.

PRO-ED #12422
298 pages

Measuring Up: Assessment Issues for Teachers, Counselors, and Administrators
Edited by Janet E. Wall and Garry R. Walz

This monograph is divided into five major sections to insure its relevance to readers of highly variable needs and interests.  The five sections are: a) The Basics of Testing, b) Assessment Issues for Special Populations and Audiences, c) Special Topics and Issues in Assessment, d) Musing Philosophical and Looking Toward the Future, and e) Resources on Assessment.  In addition, an enclosed Anthology CD has been developed as a compilation of resources equivalent to 3000 printed pages.

PRO-ED #11920
770 pages

Unfocused Kids: Helping Students to Focus on Their Education and Career Plans
Edited by Suzy Mygatt Wakefield
Associate Editors Howard Sage, Doris Coy, and Tami Palmer

This book on how to help students to focus on their plans after high school is comprised of 32 chapters by 32 writers from around the country. It is divided into five section to insure its relevance to readers of variable needs and interests. The sections are:

A. The Basics of Testing
B. Assessment Issues for Special Populations and Audiences
C. Special Topics and Issues in Assessment
D. Musing Philosophical and Looking Toward the Future
E. Resources on Assessment

PRO-ED #11930
526 pages

Cybercounseling and Cyberlearning: An Encore
Edited by John W. Bloom and Garry R. Walz

This sequel to the bestseller, Cybercounseling and Cyberlearning: Strategies and Resources for the Millennium, provides a basic orientation to cybercounseling and how counselors can adopt and implement cyber-interventions. This illuminating resource examines current practices in online counseling and distance learning, the opportunities and challenges that cybercounseling and cyberlearning can present, and how the counseling process can be enhanced using the latest technology. The authors detail the benefits counselors can reap through the use of the Internet, including facilitating online support groups, developing electronic portfolios, participating in online courses, and accessing virtual libraries.

PRO-ED #11912
391 pages

Fears, Stress and Trauma: Helping Children Cope
Edward H. Robinson, Joseph C. Rotter, Sandra L. Robinson,
Mary Ann Fey, Joanne E. Vogel

This book provides a psychological analysis of fears, stress, and trauma and includes more than 80 specific activities for helping children in grades 2-8 cope more effectively. Specific information is provided for helping children and families. Both prevention strategies and coping skills are stressed. A Facilitator's Guide assists in the implementation of the activities and contains extensive reproducible handouts.

PRO-ED #11916
231 pages

Preventing Substance Abuse: A Guide for School Counselors
Amos Sales

Presents strategies that professional school counselors can use to provide leadership in preventing substance abuse.

Topics include:

• 4 major components of a comprehensive school prevention program for K-12
• action plan to implement effective prevention programming
• special focus on prevention in extracurricular activities
• rationale for why the school counselor should initiate and lead the effort

PRO-ED #11921
152 pages