Foundations of Clinical Mental Health Counseling

<p><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Foundations of Clinical Mental Health Counseling: Professional and Clinical Issues</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> surveys an array of issues and challenges every clinical mental health counselor (CMHC) needs to be familiar with to develop their professional identity and succeed in practice.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The opening chapter offers an overview of relevant issues needed to begin the development of a professional identity as a CMHC including credentials held professional memberships accreditation roles and functions evidence-based practice (EBP) common factors important for client outcomes and nine characteristics of the effective CMHC. The chapters that follow first focus on critical professional issues and then on important clinical issues. In order the chapters discuss history and current issues; professional associations in mental health counseling and related fields; common settings where one finds CMHCs; credentialing of CMHCs and related professionals; ethics; culturally competent counseling; abnormal atypical behavior diagnosis and psychopharmacology; case conceptualization; case management; consultation and supervision; and program development and evaluation.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>A book that is both comprehensive and down-to-earth </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Foundations of Clinical Mental Health Counseling</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> is filled with vignettes interesting stories and reflective exercises. It is an ideal text for courses and programs within the discipline.</span></p>