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  Ethical Decision Making: A Guide for Counselors in the 21st Century

  Richard Parsons and Peter J. Boccone

  Ethical Decision Making: A Guide for Counselors in the 21st Century emphasizes the importance of ethical decision making while simultaneously recognizing the complexity and nuance involved in decision making in the counseling profession. Urging readers beyond simple comprehension of a professional code of ethics, the text guides them through the translation and application of codes of ethics to critical clinical decisions.
  In Section I, readers learn about the need for and challenge of ethical practice, and receive an introduction to various models of ethical decision making. Section II highlights the unique challenges counselors face in a time of expanded diversity and increasing technology. Readers are provided with case illustrations and guided exercises to close the gap between theory and practice. In dedicated chapters, readers are invited to apply an ethical decision-making model to specific clinical dilemmas.
  Ethical Decision Making provides a structure needed to guide the ethical decision making in the 21st century. It is an ideal supplementary text for courses and programs in counseling as well as a valuable tool for those in practice.

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  Counseling Strategies that Work! Evidence-based Interventions for School Counselors

  Richard D. Parsons

  This text is an anthology of intervention strategies that are rooted in scientific evidence supporting their effectiveness when applied to the day-to-day “problems” confronting today’s school counselor. It is an excellent source for counseling techniques courses or as a reading assigned as part of their field placement experiences, as well as a useful reference text for all those currently employed as school counselors. Every chapter provides a blending of theory, practice and guided, personalized application. The content is broken down succinctly, beginning with a brief introduction to the nature of the problems being addressed before delving into a detailed presentation with case illustration of the application of an intervention strategy.

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  The Ethics of Professional Practice

  Richard D. Parsons

  This text addresses ethical issues and principles in human services professions including social work, counseling, psychology, and marriage and family therapy. All of these professions must be sensitive to ethical standards and dilemmas, particularly given the increase in litigation surrounding ethical issues. This text leads the reader through a personal journey of discovery, assessment, and clarification of values and ethics. The focus of the text is to help the reader to assimilate ethical principles, thus becoming an ethical practitioner.

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  Ethical Practice in the Human Services From Knowing to Being

  Richard D. Parsons and Karen L. Dickinson

  Ethical Practice in the Human Services moves beyond addressing ethical issues and principles to helping readers actually practice ethical behavior through awareness of their personal morals, values, and choices. With coverage of ethical standards from six different associations, the text addresses ethical issues and principles in social work, counseling, psychology, and marriage and family therapy. Robust pedagogy includes case illustrations and guided exercises to give readers a deeper understanding of the underlying moral principles and values that serve as a foundation for the various ethical codes.

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  The School Counselor as Consultant: An Integrated Model for School-based Consultation

  Richard D. Parsons and Wallace J. Kahn

  Become an effective school consultant with THE SCHOOL COUNSELOR AS CONSULTANT: AN INTEGRATED MODEL FOR SCHOOL-BASED CONSULTATION! With a solution-focused, collaborative model of consultation that operates within a systems view of a school, this education text reflects contemporary issues currently confronting school counselors such as those involving inclusion, diversity, and violence. Each chapter includes chapter objectives, personal reflection guides, individual learning activities, case illustrations, a summary, a list of important terms, and an opening vignette that serves as an ongoing, unitary case, developed across chapters. Personal reflections, directed learning activities, and case illustrations help you apply what you have learned.

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  The Counselor as Practitioner-Researcher: A Practical Guide to Research Methods

  Richard D. Parsons, Eric W. Owens, and Cheryl Neale-McFall

  The Counselor as Practitioner-Researcher: A Practical Guide to Research Methods is designed to help readers integrate a researcher's perspective and research methodology into their professional practice. Approaching practice as a practitioner-researcher not only facilitates the gathering of data and the drawing of useful conclusions, but also results in more ethical and effective practice decisions.
  Section I provides readers with an overview of the need and value of research in support of the counseling profession and as a basis for sound and successful practice decisions. In Section II, the fundamentals of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed designs are reviewed. Section III highlights specific designs and their value to the counselor as practitioner-researcher, including between group, within subject, action research, and case study designs. The text concludes with an extensive case illustration of counselor research and the steps necessary to developing a specific research plan.
  The Counselor as Practitioner-Researcher assists those in training and those in practice to not only become informed consumers of research, but also "doers" of research as it guides their practice decisions, affords measures of accountability, and supports program evaluation.

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  Educational Psychology: A Practitioner-Researcher Model of Teaching

  Richard Parsons, Stephanie Lewis Hinson, and Deborah Sardo-Brown

  While covering the basic concepts of psychological theory as it applies to education, child development, human learning and behavior, classroom management and assessment, this text is written from the point of view that teaching is both an art and a science. It is the first text to offer a practitioner-researcher model of teaching in which both pre-service and in-service teachers learn to integrate observational skills and hypothesis testing into their classroom teaching as a way of constantly checking research and theory against demonstrated results. Based on the practice of Action Research, it challenges students to become critical thinkers both as immediate consumers of teacher training courses and later as classroom teachers.

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  Counseling Theory: Guiding Reflective Practice

  Richard Parsons and Naijian Zhang

  Organized around the latest CACREP standards, Counseling Theory: Guiding Reflective Practice, by Richard D. Parsons and Naijian Zhang, presents theory as an essential component to both counselor identity formation and professional practice. Drawing on the contributions of current practitioners, the text uses both classical and cutting-edge theoretical models of change as lenses for processing client information and developing case conceptualizations and intervention plans. Each chapter provides a snapshot of a particular theory/approach and the major thinkers associated with each theory as well as case illustrations and guided practice exercises to help readers internalize the content presented and apply it to their own development as counselors.

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  Diversity Matters: Understanding Diversity in Schools

  Lynn Kell Spradlin and Richard D. Parsons

  Today's educators experience diversity challenges within their curricula, schools, and school systems on a daily basis-yet most lack the knowledge to turn those challenges into positive outcomes that enrich learning and establish strong, inclusive learning communities. DIVERSITY MATTERS offers proven, research-based strategies that will help teachers successfully navigate intercultural interactions to better meet the needs of all students. An intellectual and emotional exploration of cultural diversity that covers current research and diverse case studies, DIVERSITY MATTERS helps educators understand marginalization and its effect on academic achievement while utilizing practical application strategies that will ensure that all students are active contributors to their own learning. Proven, research-based strategies throughout the text ensure that students will leave your classroom knowing how to successfully navigate intercultural interactions to better meet the needs of all their students.

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  Better Feedback, Improved Lessons: A How-To Guide for Principals, Teacher Educators, and Mentors

  Jacqueline G. Van Schooneveld

  Good teaching does not just happen during classroom instruction. The instructional design practices teachers participate in outside of instruction can have impact on potential learning opportunities that take place during class time. Lesson planning is one of those practices that can improve a teacher’s instruction; however, it needs to be supported. Although there are a plethora of lesson plan models to assist teachers, there are no concrete strategies to help principals, teacher educators and mentors give constructive feedback on lesson plans that can impact teachers’ content, pedagogy or classroom management. This book addresses it, and provides specific strategies that supervisors can use. The goal is to use lesson plans as an educative tool.

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  Field Experience: Transitioning From Student to Professional

  Naijian Zhang and Richard Parsons

  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.