An Advanced Lifespan Odyssey For Counseling Professionals

By: Bradley Erford

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Synopsis: Welcome to the lifespan odyssey! This text was designed to align with CACREP standards for counselor training programs. The background education and experiences of counselors in training are quite diverse: many have undergraduate degrees in psychology, education, or human services, while others have undergraduate degrees in business, the humanities, or some other discipline. Thus, some start with a basic understanding of human development and perhaps an undergraduate course on the topic, while others have no previous exposure to the content domain. The alignment with CACREP standards helps all counselors-in-training to master the core knowledge of lifespan development, but more importantly to apply this knowledge to helping people resolve difficulties they may encounter on their lifespan odysseys. These issues might include the implications of substance abuse for development, behavioral or emotional issues associated with trauma or an unstable environment, interventions that have been shown to be effective when working with clients along the spectrum of developmental problems, and the normal and abnormal human developmental processes that counselors must master and apply during clinical experiences--and when they take their rightful place as counseling professionals!