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Counseling & Human Services Research Guide

Research and Practitioner-Oriented Resources for Counseling Students

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Counseling Subject Searches

These links will take you to example subject searches in the library catalog. The search will show you e-book and print book results from libraries around the United States, with the titles held at Texas A&M University-San Antonio appearing at the top of the list. To borrow a print book from another library, click on the title and then under Check Availability, select the "Request item via ILL" button. Using TexShare is another option for items held by participating Texas libraries.

Suggested E-books for Counseling

Disaster Mental Health Counseling: Responding to Trauma in a Multicultural Context (2017)

"Designed for professional training in disaster mental health, and meeting CACREP standards, the text promotes the knowledge and skills needed to work with the psychosocial aspects of individual and group adaptation and adjustment to mass traumatic experience." It "offers detailed guidelines in assessment and brief interventions related to survivors' posttraumatic stress symptoms and complex trauma associated with being at the epicenter of extraordinary stressful and traumatic events."

Social Justice and Advocacy in Counseling: Experiential Activities for Teaching (2020)

The book "provides a thorough and up to date grounding in social justice and advocacy for counseling students and faculty. Chapters address issues of discrimination and oppression and their effect on individuals and cultural groups through a variety of activities and handouts related to each of the eight CACREP core standards. The book's final section focuses on activities and handouts related to counseling specialties, including school, career, and addictions counseling."

Affirmative Counseling with LGBTQI+ People (2017)

"This current and comprehensive handbook will guide educators, students, and clinicians in developing the awareness, knowledge, and skills necessary to work effectively with LGBTQI+ populations. Twenty-five chapters written by experts in the field provide direction for working with clients in an authentic, ethical, and affirmative manner that is tailored to their individual strengths, needs, and identity." 

The Art of Integrative Counseling (2019)

This text covers topics including "assessing presenting issues; developing a productive working alliance; establishing therapeutic goals; understanding and addressing diversity; working with resistant clients; using evidence-based practice in cognitive, emotive, and behavioral work with clients; dealing with transference and countertransference; and incorporating trends in integrative therapies." 

School Counselors As Practitioners (2019)

"This text demystifies the roles and responsibilities of the school counselor and teaches students and practitioners how to perform, conduct, follow through, and carry out various roles and responsibilities required on the job;" and  "conveys strategic, step-by-step processes and best practice recommendations, with emphasis on ethical and multicultural considerations." The book "pays special attention to ASCA and CACREP standards."

Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy: Individual and Relational Approaches (2017)

Includes sections on psychoanalysis, Adlerian Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Systemic-Relational Paradigm Approaches, and more.