Brande Flamez, A Stephen Lenz, Richard S Balkin, Robert L Smith

Broschiertes Buch

A Counselor's Guide to the Dissertation Process

Where to Start & How to Finish

Beschreibung

This engaging book not only offers step-by-step guidance on planning, writing, and defending a dissertation but also helps create a beginning-to-end process that is meaningful, rewarding, and exciting. Each chapter answers commonly asked questions, contains a checklist for each part of the dissertation, provides a summary of key points, and lists additional resources. Topics addressed include tips for staying motivated, time management, and self-care; selecting a dissertation committee and narrowing down the topic; writing a proposal; preparing the literature review; creating the problem statement, purpose statement, and research questions; understanding research methodology and ethics; collecting and analyzing data; presenting results; and best of all-publishing a dissertation.

Autor

Brandé Flamez, PhD, LPC, NCC, is a licensed professional counselor and clinical professor in the Department of Counseling and Special Populations at Lamar University. Dr. Flamez is also the CEO and founder of the nonprofit SALTworld (Serving and Learning Together), which provides donations and volunteer services to developing countries. Her clinical background includes working with children, adolescents, and families in community-based and private counseling settings. In addition, she helped design an outpatient program for court-referred adolescents. Dr. Flamez is active in the counseling profession. She has served on the American Counseling Association (ACA) Governing Council for the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors (IAMFC), ACA Finance Committee, and ACA Investment Committee, and she has chaired the ACA Publications Committee. She is also the past president of the Association for Humanistic Counselors (AHC) and currently serves as the president of IAMFC, cochairs the AHC Bylaws/Ethics Committee, and is the secretary for AHC.   Dr. Flamez is on the editorial board for The Family Journal. She has presented nationally and internationally and coauthored several book chapters and articles. Dr. Flamez is the coauthor of the assessment textbook Counseling Assessment and Evaluation: Fundamentals of Applied Practice and the coeditor for Diagnosing Children and Adolescents: A Guide for Mental Health Practitioners and the forthcoming book Practical Approaches to Clinical Supervision Across Settings. She is the recipient of numerous national awards, including ACA’s 2012 Gilbert and Kathleen Wrenn Award for a Caring and Humanitarian Person, IAMFC’s 2012 Distinguished Mentor Award, ACA’s 2014 Kitty Cole Human Rights Award, ACA’s 2015 Counselor Educator Advocacy Award, and ACA’s 2017 Dr. Judy Lewis Counselors for Social Justice Award. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: American Counseling Association (Aca)
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 145mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781556203596
• ISBN-10: 1556203594
• Artikelnr.: 74805971