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Field Experience
Transitioning From Student to Professional

March 2015 | 400 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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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. 



 
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

 

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
January 11, 2022
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Key features

KEY FEATURES:

  • The text is organized around and adheres to the new CACREP standards of developing a professional identity.
  • Case illustrations throughout the book assist readers in understanding key points and apply them to their own practice.
  • Guided exercises in every chapter facilitate understanding and assimilation of the material.
  • Chapter objectives and “Keystone” summaries help readers grasp the critical points of the chapter.
  • Sample paperwork (clinical documents, instruments, cover letters, resumes, etc.) provides students with models they can use.
  • Additional Resources sections include numerous web-based and print materials for use during the field experience.

Sample Materials & Chapters

Chapter 6

Chapter 10