Becoming a Twenty-First Century Agency Counselor : Personal and Professional Explorations,9780534356057

Becoming a Twenty-First Century Agency Counselor : Personal and Professional Explorations

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780534356057
ISBN10: 0534356052
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-09-14
Publisher(s): Cengage Learning
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Summary

This practical book offers valuable information, suggestions, and guidelines designed to help readers learn how to work effectively in an agency setting. The unifying theme and framework is the value and importance of looking at personal and professional aspects of agency counseling. This text helps the reader look inside themselves as well as outside of themselves at their agency.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Introduction to the Therapeutic Professions
1(34)
The Issue of Professional Identity
6(2)
Historical Influences and Training Models
8(5)
Psychiatry
8(1)
Psychology
9(2)
Counseling
11(1)
Social Work
12(1)
Summary of Historical Influences and Training Models
13(1)
Insides, Outsides, Groups, and Individuals
13(11)
Other Therapeutic Professionals
24(3)
Substance Abuse Counselors
24(1)
Marriage and Family Therapy
25(2)
The Impact of the DSM on Professional Indentity
27(1)
Professional Organizations
27(8)
The Functions of Professional Organizations
28(1)
The Pros and Cons of Membership in Professional Organizations
28(7)
Life as a Community Agency Counselor
35(21)
Employment Settings
36(2)
Productivity
38(3)
Typical Career Paths in Community Agency Work
41(2)
Standard of Living
43(3)
A Typical Work Schedule
46(1)
Effective Counseling and Counselor Wellness
47(9)
Sleep
47(1)
Burnout
48(3)
Physical Health
51(1)
Substance Abuse
52(4)
Exploring Ourselves and Our Motives
56(19)
``Wounded Healers'' and Need Fulfillment
58(3)
Engagement in the Counseling Process
61(6)
Rationales for Personal Therapy Among Counselors in Training
63(1)
Research Findings on Trainees in Counseling
64(3)
The Power Differential
67(1)
Diversity
68(2)
The Integration of Self-Awareness in Counselor Training: Personal Meaning
70(5)
Ethical Issues in Agency Counseling
75(65)
Definitions of Terms
77(1)
The Basis of Ethical Behavior
77(3)
The Divine Model of Ethical Behavior
78(1)
The Naturalistic Model of Ethical Behavior
79(1)
The Ideal Observer Model of Ethical Behavior
80(1)
The Golden Five Ethical Principles of Therapeutic Professions
80(11)
The Counseling Relationship
82(1)
Confidentiality
83(2)
Professional Responsibility
85(1)
Relationships with Other Professionals
86(2)
Cultural Issues in Evaluation, Assessment, and Interpretation
88(3)
The Resolution of Ethical Dilemmas
91(1)
Selected Ethical Issues
91(22)
Sexual Contact with Clients
92(1)
Work with Involuntary Clients
93(4)
Work with Clients with HIV or AIDS
97(3)
Therapy and Technology
100(1)
Ethics and Managed Care
101(5)
Diagnosis and Third-Party Payors
106(7)
American Counseling Association
Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice
113(27)
Preamble
113(1)
Section A: The Counseling Relationship
113(4)
Section B: Confidentiality
117(2)
Section C: Professional Responsibility
119(4)
Section D: Relationships with Other Professionals
123(1)
Section E: Evaluation, Assessment, and Interpretation
124(4)
Section F: Teaching, Training, and Supervision
128(2)
Section G: Research and Publication
130(3)
Section H: Resolving Ethical Issues
133(1)
Standards of Practice
134(6)
Services from the Intake to Termination
140(42)
Quality Assurance
143(1)
Record Keeping and the Client Record
144(5)
Service Provision: Intake and Triage
149(8)
Service Provision: Crisis
157(18)
A Comparison of Definitions of Crisis
157(1)
Crisis Intervention
158(2)
Common Symptoms and Stages of Crisis
160(2)
Assessing a Client in Crisis
162(3)
Suicide
165(8)
Intervention
173(2)
Modes of Treatment
175(1)
Preventive Intervention
175(1)
Consultation
176(1)
Termination
177(5)
Advocacy and Research
182(37)
The Concept of Advocacy
184(7)
Advocating to Promote Societal Equity
184(5)
Advocating for Recognition of the Profession
189(2)
Research in Counseling
191(17)
The Role of Research
191(2)
Inherent Problems in Conducting Research
193(1)
Good Consumers of Research Results
194(1)
The Diagnosis of Pathology
195(1)
The Problem of Theoretical Relativety
196(2)
Outcomes Measures
198(5)
Ways in Which Research Enables Science to Inform Practice
203(5)
The Process and Outcome of Therapy
208(11)
Funding and Politics in Agency Counseling
219(24)
Important Funding Terms
222(1)
A History of Mental Health Funding
222(10)
The Postwar Years
223(1)
Deinstitutionalization
224(3)
Funding and Community Mental Health Centers
227(5)
Medicare and Medicaid Funding for Mental Health
232(2)
Medicare
232(1)
Medicaid
233(1)
The 1990s
234(2)
The Clinton Administration
234(1)
The 1990s and Beyond: Consequences and Possibilities
235(1)
The Issues of Authority and Responsibility
236(1)
Agency Counseling in the Twenty-First Century
237(6)
Managed Mental Health Care
243(36)
Introduction to the Problem of Health Care Coverage
244(5)
Reliance on Impatient Treatment
245(2)
Increased Need and Rising Costs
247(2)
Rising Costs and Fraud
249(1)
Managed Care: A Definition
249(4)
The Evolution of Managed Mental Health Care: Advantages
253(3)
The Evolution of Managed Mental Health Care: Disadvantages
256(5)
An Assessment of Managed Care Programs
261(3)
Program Objectives
261(1)
The Scope of the Program
261(1)
Organizational Structure and Authority
261(1)
Enrollment
262(1)
The Benefit Package
262(1)
The Management of Utilization
262(1)
Best Practices
263(1)
Financing
263(1)
Quality Management and Outcome Systems
263(1)
Practice in a Managed Care Environment
264(7)
Substance Abuse Costs
264(1)
Employee Mental Health Issues
265(1)
Skill for Working in the Managed Care Environment
266(1)
Opportunities for Agency Counselors
267(4)
Indexes
Author Index
271(8)
Subject Index
279

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