Overview
Deliberate practice exercises help trainees achieve competence in essential career counseling skills and apply them in a variety of contexts while honing their own personal style. These exercises present role-playing scenarios in which two trainees act as a client and a counselor, switching back and forth under the guidance of a supervisor. The counselor improvises appropriate and authentic responses to client statements organized into three difficulty levels—beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Each of the first 10 exercises focuses on a single skill, which include exploring your client's skills, values, decision-making styles, and cultural and family influences; setting goals; and providing feedback on career assessments and analyzing their underlying themes. Two comprehensive exercises follow in which trainees integrate these essential skills into a single session. Step-by-step instructions guide participants through the exercises, identify criteria for mastering the skills, and explain how to monitor and adjust difficulty. Guidelines to help trainers and trainees get the most out of training are also provided.
Full Product Details
Author: Jennifer M. Taylor ,
Alexandre Vaz ,
Tony Rousmaniere
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Imprint: American Psychological Association
ISBN: 9781433842887
ISBN 10: 1433842882
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 30 June 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This practical guide is an essential resource for career counselors at all levels, offering clear examples and real-world scenarios to refine and enhance counseling skills. Ideal for new supervisors and instructors alike, it provides actionable strategies to support effective, impactful career counseling. - Jon Schlesinger, MEd, CCC, Executive Director, Hiatt Career Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA If you are puzzled by how to help students and practitioners apply their core counseling skills to career interventions, then look no further. This book provides a systematic program of activities that faculty and supervisors can use to effectively and efficiently enable practitioners to close the gap between theoretical knowledge and actually performing career counseling. - Mark L. Savickas, PhD, Professor and Chair Emeritus, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown This text provides counseling trainees and supervisors a practical guide for developing the counseling skills to effectively work with clients who present with career-related concerns. The authors amp rsquo writing is highly accessible and engaging and grounded in the career counseling and multicultural psychology literatures. The book is filled with useful skill-building training exercises that are segmented by skill level and can easily be integrated in individual or group supervision, counseling practicums, and vocational psychology/career counseling courses. I highly recommend this volume for counselors at any stage of their career who want to strengthen their career counseling competencies! - Lisa Y. Flores, PhD, Frank A. Middlebush Chair of Social Sciences and Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia; former Editor, Journal of Career Development
Author Information
Jennifer M. Taylor, PhD, is senior director of the American Psychological Association's Office of Continuing Education Sponsor Approval and former associate professor of counseling psychology and program director for clinical mental health counseling at the University of Utah. She publishes and presents on best practices in teaching and lifelong learning. Her diverse clinical experience includes work at a top-ranked career center, several university counseling centers, an international student center, a psychiatric hospital, a high school serving underrepresented students, and a counseling center for low-income families. Dr. Taylor has received numerous teaching awards and is passionate about social justice and advocacy. Alexandre Vaz, PhD, is cofounder and chief academic officer of Sentio University. He provides deliberate practice workshops and clinical training and supervision around the world. Dr. Vaz is the author/coeditor of four books on deliberate practice and psychotherapy training and two book series: The Essentials of Deliberate Practice (APA Books) and Advanced Therapeutics, Clinical and Interpersonal Skills (Elsevier). He has held multiple committee roles for the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI) and the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR). Dr. Vaz is founder and host of ""Psychotherapy Expert Talks"", an acclaimed interview series with distinguished psychotherapists and researchers. Tony Rousmaniere, PsyD, is cofounder and program director of Sentio University. He provides workshops, webinars, and clinical training and supervision around the world. He is the author/coeditor of six books on deliberate practice and psychotherapy training and two book series: The Essentials of Deliberate Practice (APA Books) and Advanced Therapeutics, Clinical and Interpersonal Skills (Elsevier). In 2017, he published the widely cited article in The Atlantic Monthly, ""What Your Therapist Doesn't Know"". Dr. Rousmaniere supports the open-data movement and publishes clinical outcome data at drtonyr.com. He was awarded the Early Career Award by the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy.
