The Counselor EducatorÆs Survival Guide: Designing and Teaching Outstanding Courses in Community Mental Health Counseling and School Counseling

by Perera-Diltz; Dilani M.

• ISBN13: 9780415875899
• ISBN10: 0415875897
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-10-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This is an edited volume that is a resource manual containing information pertaining to developing and instructing course work in Counselor Education in both the Clinical Mental Health Counseling (CMHC) and the School Counseling (SC) Programs at the Master#xE2;#xAC;"s level. It#xE2;#xAC;"s main objectives are to establish a rationale and format for incorporating active learning across the Counselor Education curriculum; provide material that closely meets the CACREP guidelines for that content area to emerging, new, and established educators developing courses in CMHC or SC programs; and provide active learning strategies that can be incorporated into classroom lessons to emerging, new, and established educators instructing courses in CMHC or SC programs. Chapters are written by written by a variety of Counselor Educators in the field, cover courses in various different subjects, and include - A rationale for the course - Objectives for the course with inclusion of CACREP standards - A list of the top texts used by faculty nationwide to teach the course, along with their strengths and weaknesses - A rubric with criteria to evaluate textbooks - A list of articles that could supplement the course - A list of audio-visual material that could facilitate the learning of the course material - A list of activities and assignments that could facilitate active and engaged learning - A tentative schedule for a 16 week course