The Handbook of Counseling and Counselor Education is a comprehensive and innovative resource that provides counselors-in-training, counselor educators, and professional counselors with the latest information on major contemporary issues impacting the counseling field. The book’s design is both conceptual and practical. It reflects on the current trends and issues from the perspective of expert counselor educators as well as provides an up-to-date discussion of the importance of multicultural awareness, knowledge, and skills. The book is divided into helpful sections covering multiple areas critical to the counseling profession and helping relationships. These areas include professional orientation and ethical practices, human growth and development, assessment and testing in counseling and group work, social and cultural diversity, and career development. It also includes more contemporary issues in counseling such as neuroscience, risk prevention, and writing and publishing research. The Handbook also raises pertinent points of view about research and program evaluation, supervision in counseling, and counselor education.

Grounded in contemporary research and aligned with the 2016 CACREP core content areas, it is an indispensable resource for both graduate-level trainees, counselor educators, and professional counselors alike. Counselors-in-training can master by perusing foundational topics in human growth and development, social and cultural diversity, career development, assessment and testing, group work and research, and program evaluation that are currently part of the counseling curricula. This will assist with their professional knowledge as well as comprehensive exam preparation. The contemporary topics on neuroscience and risk prevention can also prepare counselors-in-training as they enter the field or even provide further professional development for practitioners. With the writing and publishing research sections, both counselors-in-training and practitioners can expand upon their research skills in preparation for doctoral programs or collaborating with counselor educators on research. Counselor educators will find the handbook handy as a classroom resource to aid them in the core CACREP content areas and inspire their awareness about research. The handbook can also be an ally to other helping professionals like psychologists and social workers as it discusses general and pertinent issues related to the helping profession. Therefore, this comprehensive handbook stands out as a useful and indispensable resource for graduate-level trainees, counselor educators, professional counselors, and other professionals within the helping field.