Counseling in a Complex Society: Contemporary Challenges to Professional Practice

The practice of professional counseling in the 21st century is faced with challenge and opportunity on many fronts. The counselor, whose working environment may range from clinic to school to private practice, will face a wide variety of counseling concerns and a vast client population. This book takes the counselor and counseling student through a range of pertinent issues from multicultural concerns to Internet counseling, from PTSD through Expressive Arts. The authors offer their hard won expertise, earned through long experience in the field. As practitioners and educators, their combined knowledge offers a useful visit to the realms of counseling and its vicissitudes. The topics in each of these chapters are offered as an invitation to explore the winding vistas that each professional counselor will face in doing work on the front lines, with clients facing a wide array of needs and complex life situations. These voices from the field share with the reader the rich and important world of counseling and psychology, as it is practiced and understood in this complex society.