Written by counselors, for counselors, this groundbreaking resource redefines what it means to offer care in a tech-driven world. Whether a practitioner curious about AI, a supervisor navigating new ethical terrain, or an educator preparing future counselors, this bold and accessible guide provides insights, understandings, and tools for the AI novice to the seasoned professional. It features practical tools, real-life case studies, and ethical guidance, empowering counselors and helping professionals to integrate AI into their practice while maintaining the deep empathy and identity in their work. It is not merely a guide on how to bring new technology into your caring practice, but how to infuse care into your technology use.

Written for graduate students who want to get the most out of their experience, this book presents down-to-earth discussions and suggestions on counselor training and life after graduation. The authors, both millennials and recent doctoral program graduates, draw upon their own personal and professional training and career experiences, as well as shared insight from a diverse group of current graduate students, recent graduates, and new professionals. The realistic, personal, and often humorous narratives throughout the book give an insider's perspective on graduate school and illuminate the emotional journey of students and new professionals.

Topics include choosing and getting into a program, handling the opportunities and challenges that each year of the program presents, gaining emotional maturity, dealing with setbacks, managing conflicts, increasing cultural awareness, getting a doctoral degree, searching for a job, finding a supervisor, and obtaining licensure. Readers will also be able to peek behind the curtains of faculty meetings to glean what faculty members expect, develop skills for their first session, and create and maintain a self-care plan for improving work-life balance.

Ideal for use in introductory counseling courses, Orientation to Professional Counseling is fully aligned with the 2016 CACREP Standards and contains historical perspectives on the foundations of the profession, an overview of counseling specialties and contemporary issues in the field, and a discussion of anticipated future trends. Throughout the book, Nassar, Niles, and other counseling leaders emphasize the core content and expertise common within a unified counseling identity. To deepen practical application, chapters include learning objectives and activities, review questions, illustrative text sidebars, and "Voices From the Field."

Counselors, parents, and teachers can not only join in on the adventures at Stone Gate Elementary with Captain Emotions and the SuperPower Pack, but with this resource they can empower children to further build their own emotional intelligence, empathy, resilience, logical thinking, and mindfulness. With ready-to-use lesson plans, activities that connect to real-life challenges, and deep dives into concepts like emotional regulation and friendship, this flexible toolkit contains all that's needed to integrate the SuperPower Pack into classroom, counseling, and at-home settings.

This resource guide is for counselors, parents and teachers to use as a standalone resource or in conjunction with the children's book series We All Have SuperPowers! The guide includes activities and lessons to help children build empathy, emotional intelligence, logical thinking, perseverance, growth mindset and mindfulness. It extends the Guide Star conversation questions included in the series stories and activities into lessons and takes a deeper dive into conversations and therapeutic strategies that can be used in the counseling setting, at school or home with young children. The booklet is broken up by themes so parents, teachers and counselors can pull material based on the needs of the child. And, the booklet includes a simple "recipe" for a lesson plan format that we recommend using in the classroom as well as a few example lesson plans.

Emotions are strong, and so are you! In this children's book designed for young learners, readers join the fun and diverse SuperPower Pack and the wise Captain Emotions at Stone Gate Elementary, where everyday adventures become powerful lessons in empathy, resilience, logic, and mindfulness. With vibrant illustrations, relatable characters, and thoughtful conversation starters, this heartwarming story is a fun and empowering tool for kids, parents, teachers, and counselors that encourages young readers to understand their feelings, celebrate their strengths, and see the superhero inside themselves.

We All Have SuperPowers! is designed as a series and tells the story of four young children and shows how their social emotional strengths help them navigate their days and obstacles. Captain Emotions and the SuperPower Pack is the first book in the series and introduces the characters and their first big challenge to overcome. In Captain Emotions and the SuperPower Pack, young readers meet four diverse and dynamic characters who discover that their unique social-emotional strengths are the keys to overcoming challenges and supporting each other.