Becoming an Effective Counselor
A Guide for Advanced Clinical Courses

Becoming an Effective Counselor is a textbook for advanced clinical courses that guides counselors in training through the most challenging phases of their academic preparation. Chapters blend skills-based content, real-world student examples, and opportunities for personal reflection to help students navigate some of the most difficult aspects of clinical counseling. Written by authors with over 50 years of combined counseling experience, this volume prepares aspiring counselors to assess their progress, remediate deficiencies, and deepen their existing skills in a way that is attentive to both core counseling skills and counselors? internal processes.

Preface 1. The Challenge of Becoming an Effective Counselor 2. Ethics of Practice for Advanced Clinical Work 3. Clinical Supervision: Developing a Collaborative Team 4. Am I Doing This Right? Formative and Summative Assessment 5. Client Intake: First Steps in Forming the Alliance 6. Identifying Problems, Issues, Resources and Patterns 7. Helping Clients Change 8. Termination 9. Post-Master’s Supervised Clinical Experience, Licensure, and Employment

Justin E. Levitov, PhD, is professor emeritus in the Department of Counseling at Loyola University New Orleans.

Kevin A. Fall, PhD, is a professor and chair of the Department of Counseling, Leadership, Adult Education, and School Psychology at Texas State University.