Introduction to Counseling: Integration of Faith, Professional Identity, and Clinical Practice
Introduction to Counseling: Integration of Faith, Professional Identity, and Clinical Practice provides a comprehensive introduction to the profession and faith integration.
The publication helps students understand how to be and think like an ethically responsible Counselor who is also a Christian and sought an education, which included a Christian worldview.
Introduction to Counseling: Integration of Faith, Professional Identity, and Clinical Practice:
- is not focused on training Christian counselors. Rather, it is focused on training future Professional Counselors who want to understand how to be true to their faith without imposing values on clients.
- explains what it means to be a professional counselor, the roles and functions included in being a professional counselor, as well as the historical antecedents, current trends, and future outlook of the profession.
- describes how the counseling role is complementary and distinct from other professionals, what students uniquely bring to the counseling profession, and an understanding of how to integrate their identity as a Christian into the profession.
- is designed to address CACREP standards related to Professional Identity.
- Is divided into four main categories of foundational information about professional identity: Who We Are and What We Do, Spiritual and Ethical Cornerstones, Counseling in Practice, and Looking to the Future.
Introduction to Counseling: Integration of Faith, Professional Identity, and Clinical Practice
Chapter 14: Artificial Intelligence in the Counseling Profession
After reading this chapter, you will understand more about:
The capabilities and limitations of existing AI tools utilized in counseling based on their technological maturity level.
The prominent categories of AI counseling applications, like chatbots, analytics, assessment, and predictive modules by their clinical functions.
The emerging best practices guiding ethical integration of automated solutions with human-provided therapy based on published guidelines.
The methods for continually monitoring development of new conversational, predictive, descriptive, and planning AI agents relevant to enhancing counseling efficacy.
A personal viewpoint on the future role of AI automation in augmenting versus replacing a counselor’s therapeutic skillset for various clinical tasks and decisions.