Orientation to the counseling profession: Advocacy, ethics, and essential professional foundations (2nd ed.)

Erford, B. T. (2014). Orientation to the counseling profession: Advocacy, ethics, and essential professional foundations (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson, pp. xxiv & 560. $133.80.

This is a comprehensive text for counselors and counselor educators. It is closely aligned with CACREP standards and was written to help CACREP-accredited counseling programs meet accreditation standards. This text covers a wide range of professional issues, described within four sections. These sections are Foundations of Professional Counselor Identity, Counseling Processes and Approaches, Client Issues and Advocacy, and Effectiveness of Counseling. Each section includes from two to eight chapters written by counseling experts throughout the country.

Features of the book include the perspectives of practitioners in the field, trends within the profession, a counseling laboratory where readers go to a site to practice skills and apply knowledge learned with video and case-based assignments. Each chapter has a "Voices from...