Professional School Counseling

Professional School Counseling is a comprehensive, single source for information about the critical issues facing school counselors today. This fourth edition of the Handbook integrates updates from the 2019 ASCA National Model, the 2022 ASCA Ethical Standards, and the 2021 ASCA Mindsets and Behaviors. Editor Bradley Erford and a top-notch range of experts provide readers with a strong foundation of the current state of school counseling while also offering perspective as to how the profession evolved to its current state and insights into the future of the field.

The seven sections in this edition include:

• The Foundations of School Counseling
• Leadership and the Professional School Counselor
• Comprehensive School Counseling Services
• Techniques and Approaches to Counseling in Schools
• Assessment in School Counseling
• Clinical Issues in School Counseling
• Special Issues and Populations in School Counseling

Updated throughout to reflect the most current literature, this edition contains new chapters on:

• Play Therapy
• Visual Arts and the Professional School Counselor
• Literacy-based Strategies for the Professional School Counselor
• Conducting Structured Observations
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• Response-to-Intervention
• Social Emotional Learning
• Counseling Children Experiencing Economic Instability
• School Counselors and Social Media and Technology/Internet Safety

Broad-based and authoritatively written, it makes an excellent textbook for school counselor education programs and an extremely relevant professional resource. This volume is the essential tool for all school counselors, counselor educators, and counselor supervisors.