Synopses & Reviews
A guide to innovative mental health education is urgently needed. Despite the hundreds of programs in existence for training students in counseling, human service, social work, and psychology, teachers in such programs have relied on an informal network of information exchange to guide their teaching practice. Yet, constructivist and developmental theories now point to sound, innovative practices for teaching. This volume delineates those practices.
Despite years of research on effective adult education, university teaching fails, in practice, to incorporate research-supported teaching principles. Current university instruction is still dominated by the teacher-as-authority. The teacher downloads information from the front of the class and expects students to regurgitate it in papers and on exams. The authors offer a different vision of classrooms that are characterized by the themes of meaning-making, collaboration, equality, and activity in the learning environment.
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Devoted to teaching and course design ideas exclusively for counselor education.
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Committed to constructivist and developmental teaching in counselor education, the authors contend that these practices are critical for preparing thoughtful, creative, mental health practitioners. They offer suggestions for transforming the specific courses in the counselor education curriculum.
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Committed to constructivist and developmental teaching in counselor education, the authors contend that these practices are critical for preparing thoughtful, creative, mental health practitioners. They offer suggestions for transforming the specific courses in the counselor education curriculum.
Table of Contents
Introduction by Garrett J. McAuliffe
Transforming the Courses
Introduction to Counseling: A Preliminary Construction of the Professional Reality by Yvonne Callaway and Sue Stickel
Constructing the Helping Interview by Karen Eriksen and Garrett McAuliffe
Using Kelly's Personal Construct Theory as a Meta-Structure to Teach a Counseling Theories Course by Suni Peterson
Discovering Assessment by Carolyn Oxenford
Teaching Group Counseling: A Constructivist Approach by Bill Bruck
Teaching Counseling Research from a Constructivist Perspective by Mary Lee Nelson and Pamela Paisley
A Constructivist Approach to the Teaching of Career Counseling by Judy Emmett
Education Supervisors: A Constructivist Approach to the Teaching of Supervision by Susan Neufeldt
Constructing Learning Communities in Pre-Practicum and Practicum Seminars by Kathy O'Byrne
Renaming and Rethinking the Diagnosis and Treatment Course by Vicki White
Transforming Learning Experiences in Graduate Classes on Counseling Children and Adolescents by Ann Vernon and Toni Tollerud
Family Counseling Training and the Constructivist Classroom by Thomas Russo
Constructivist and Developmental School Counselor Education by Shelley A. Jackson and Susan DeVaney
Community Agency Counseling: Teaching about Management and Administration by Rick Myer
Student Development Education as the Practice of Liberation: A Constructivist Approach by Jane Fried
Teaching Substance Abuse Counseling: Constructivist Hyperlinks from Classroom to Clients by Jane J. Carroll and James A. Bazan
Positivism-Plus: A Constructivist Approach to Teaching Psychopharmacology to Counselors by R. Elliot Ingersoll and Cecile Brennan
Index