I am thrilled to represent Cognella Academic Publishing in person at the American Counseling Association 2023 Conference and Expo. If you’re attending the conference, stop by and say hi!

If you aren’t able to attend the conference, we’ve put together a virtual exhibit to emulate the spirit and energy of an in-person event and to share our latest titles in the discipline.

As we continue to face increasingly complex challenges, from the highly personal to those on a global scale, scholarship in the social sciences is more important than ever.

For over 25 years, I have had the pleasure of developing textbooks in the disciplines of counseling, social work, human services, and family studies. Since joining Cognella in 2015, I have continued to build and grow our offerings in these key areas by valuing authors’ unique perspectives, providing a platform for introducing their work to thousands of students nationwide, and investing in helping these critical disciplines move forward in interesting and innovative ways.

The titles featured in this virtual exhibit reflect Cognella’s commitment to publishing quality texts by notable authors that showcase the exciting work and thought leadership emerging in social work, counseling, and human services.

If you’re interested in discussing book ideas, I’d love to hear from you. Please email me at: kassiegraves@cognella.com.

I hope you all have a wonderful conference!

#IRLSchoolCounseling: An Introduction to the Profession equips students with foundational school counseling knowledge using an engaging, real-world approach. Chapters—predicated around a social media post created by a real-life school counselor—walk readers through personal reflection, consultation with practicing school counselors, and information synthesis to highlight the role and responsibilities of school counselors and the varied experiences practitioners navigate as they implement a comprehensive school counseling program.

Assessment in Counseling: Guiding Practice and Decision Making considers the real-world use of assessment by counselors and other helping professionals. The book underscores the importance of collecting data to understand a client’s history, current circumstances, and future goals; provide a clinical diagnosis; develop goals and objectives for treatment; and determine the appropriate time to terminate treatment.

The fourth edition of Career Counseling, edited by David Capuzzi, offers a comprehensive overview of the foundations of career counseling, the skills and techniques needed for career counseling, and contextual perspectives on career and lifestyle planning. An impressive array of nationally and internationally recognized experts join Dr. Capuzzi in providing state-of-the-art information to readers. In addition, the book aids student learning by illustrating the practical applications of the concepts presented as well as interesting sidebars that contain information related to the chapter content, case studies, or awareness building exercises.

Facilitating Growth Through Lifespan Development provides readers with a unique and illuminating review of theories and research that describe and explain the lifespan, including its normative tasks and progressions, and the challenges and roadblocks that can be encountered. Readers gain a deeper understanding of the interplay between one’s biological foundations and the physical-social-psychological environments in which an individual’s development plays out.

Career-Focused Counseling: Integrating Culture, Development, and Neuroscience provides readers with a highly practical, research-based guide that focuses on understanding the individual and applying counseling skills to career-related concerns. The book approaches career development and theory through the lens of counseling, and views career concerns as just one of many issues clients present.

Healthy Aging in Action: Roles, Functions, and the Wisdom of Elders helps readers gain a deeper understanding of what it means to age healthfully throughout the lifespan, but especially during the later stages of life when new identities, roles, functions, and responsibilities take precedent, not only for personal satisfaction, but to bolster the family and community.

Preparing for Your Licensing Exam: NCE and NCMHCE well prepares future counselors to sit for their National Counselors Examination and National Clinical Mental Health Counseling Examination. The book not only helps readers cultivate physical and mental states optimal for testing, it also reviews core concepts and competencies that are likely to appear on the exams.

Brief therapy is a unique and effective approach to mental health service delivery. Brief Psychotherapy: Time-Limited and Effective Treatments offers readers insight into the assumptions and operating principles that are at the core of all brief therapies. The book reviews contemporary and time-limited models of psychotherapy and also provides clinical illustrations of each theory.

Featuring contributed chapters written by experts in the field, Telemental Health: What Every Student Needs to Know equips future counselors with the tools, skillsets, and knowledge required to effectively serve clients across different modalities. The text covers the history of telemental health, ethical decision-making, the importance of integrating assessment within the telemental health setting, navigating screenings digitally, relationship-building, working with various populations, and more.

Recognizing that many marginalized communities experience the damaging mental health impacts of oppression and discrimination, Clinical Interventions for Internalized Oppression offers practitioners with theoretical frameworks, treatment recommendations, and practice guidelines for addressing bias in their own work, as well as specific interventions for treating the deleterious impacts of inequity.

The sixth edition of the best-selling Counseling Children and Adolescents offers readers a comprehensive exploration of the practice of counseling young clients. This edition retains the features of previous editions prized by instructors and students alike but incorporates important updates. A new chapter on trauma has been added and references, examples, and case studies have been updated as appropriate to reflect the current times.

The third edition of Research and Evaluation in Counseling serves to alleviate readers’ concerns while providing them with an impactful learning experience. It presents the most essential components of research and illustrates them with meaningful examples, enabling users to excel at each component. This completely updated edition includes new or greatly enhanced chapters and content on qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research design, and ethical and legal issues in research.

A Counselor’s Guide to Psychopharmacology and Alternative Treatments provides readers with an overview of the fundamentals of psychopharmacology so they can help facilitate medication-based treatment plans and more fully meet their clients’ needs. The text bridges the gap between the content-knowledge of psychopharmacology and the intentional incorporation of medication-based interventions into a larger, counseling-driven therapeutic process.

Collective Trauma and Human Suffering: Energizing Systemic Change through Collective Healing Action provides readers with a compassionate and research-based framework in an increasingly fragmented world. This book presents a model that demonstrates a recognition towards intercultural community resilience while integrating deep-seated trauma through collective healing action and hope. It recalls wisdom and knowledge of earlier world cultures sustaining human wellbeing.

Foundations of Clinical Mental Health Counseling: Professional and Clinical Issues surveys an array of issues and challenges every clinical mental health counselor (CMHC) needs to be familiar with to develop their professional identity and succeed in practice, including roles and function, evidence-based practice, credentialing, ethics, culturally competent counseling, case conceptualization, case management, program development and evaluation, and more.

Recognizing that spirituality and religion are protective factors for individuals in recovery and can inspire greater levels of sobriety, Addictions Counseling: Body, Soul, and Spirit provides readers with a Christ-centered model for understanding, intervening, and facilitating growth with clients facing issues with addiction. The text features contributed chapters from a variety of professional addiction counselors and shares a wide array of perspectives, theories, tools, and interventions that have been proven to help individuals overcome trauma and their dependence on destructive chemicals and behaviors.

The spiritually-attuned counselor is intentional about their own spiritual growth, practice, and development so they can support others in their own process. In Spirituality and the Helping Professions, author Miles Matise guides readers through a journey of personal spiritual growth and also provides them with the skillsets and knowledge they need to assist clients in the use of religious and spiritual means to facilitate growth and navigate their own lives.

In Men’s Mental Health: A Wellness-Based Approach to Healthy Masculinity, editors Paul F. Granello, Matthew S. Fleming, and Tyler D. Hudson convene the voices of leading scholars across the disciplines to examine the state of men’s mental health in American society. The book paints a picture of a social system that is hostile toward men’s mental health, explores the issues and challenges unique to specific male subpopulations, and provides helping professions with a strengths-based wellness approach for working with men.

Relationship Factors in Counseling: A Guide for Evidence-Based Practice in Practicum and Internship embraces the notion that the clinical training of counselors needs to reach beyond basic microskills to include therapeutic relationship-building skills, which are proven to facilitate positive client outcomes in therapy. This text is designed to teach counseling students how to intentionally develop and maintain a therapeutic relationship.

Research and Practice in Non-Western Cultures: The Need for a Paradigm Shift in Mental Health reviews the current ethnocentric approach in mental health research and practice and presents issues that need to be considered for non-Western cultures. The book is organized into three sections that progressively describe the development of Western paradigms in mental health, their implicit application to non-Western cultures, and the need for developing a less ethnocentric paradigm.

From Grad School to Private Practice: A Road Map for Mental Health Clinicians is an essential guidebook for anyone looking to succeed in the mental health profession. Featuring contributed chapters from experts in the field, this comprehensive resource equips readers with the necessary skills and resources to transition from academia to real-world practice.

Native American Psychosocial Identity: Worldviews and Community Structures explores the psychosocial identities of Native Americans – American Indians, Canadian First Nations, and Native Hawaiians from an interdisciplinary perspective. Written by Native American studies scholars, the book discusses the impact of the genocide perpetuated on Native Americans, including wars, disease, slavery, loss of land, weakening of tribal governance, damage to family systems, and suppression of cultural forms such as language and religion.

Developed for helping professionals, Counseling Theory and Practice explains what it means to be an effective helper, discusses foundations of classic counseling and psychotherapy theories, provides an overview of emerging theories, and gives students the opportunity to develop their own approaches to counseling and psychotherapy practice.

In the third edition, Ed Neukrug is joined by Danica Hays, who uses her expertise on efficacy, cultural diversity, and gender issues to enhance each chapter. In addition to new chapters on the emerging theories of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and neurocounseling, the text uses inclusive language and fully updated references, adds new vignettes, and highlights existing videos and websites created by Dr. Neukrug.

Counseling and Psychotherapy: Theory and Beyond introduces readers to some of the major theories, approaches, modalities, and influences that help guide clinical counseling and psychotherapy. It covers some traditional theories but is not a strict “theory” text in the conventional sense. The book is much more than a repackaging of a 1980s era mode of thinking as both the established and the burgeoning are featured throughout. The emphasis on technology makes this an especially noteworthy volume for anyone teaching or taking a counseling theory or skills course.

Introduction to 21st Century Counseling: A Multicultural and Social Justice Approach provides readers with an overview of the counseling discipline with emphasis on developing a culturally responsive practice rooted in social justice. Featuring chapters authored by seasoned experts and rising stars in the counseling profession, the text offers traditional information integrated with evidence-based techniques and practices based upon key multicultural and social justice competencies.

The text is the recipient of a 2022 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association. Read the press release to learn more.

The sixth edition of The World of the Counselor: An Introduction to the Counseling Profession provides readers with an illuminating window into the day-to-day realities of a practicing counselor. This new edition includes updated information within every chapter to reflect the latest ethical codes and standards, updated content on cutting-edge issues, and alignment with 2016 CACREP standards. In keeping with current trends, cultural competence, social justice concerns, technological issues such as tele-mental health counseling, some of the newest theories in counseling, and crisis, disaster, and trauma counseling are highlighted. Throughout the text, students are provided with meaningful self-reflection opportunities, hands-on experiential activities, and enlightening case studies to enrich their learning experience.

The new edition of Katherine R. Allen and Angela C. Henderson’s Family Theories Today: A Critical Intersectional Approach expands on the dynamic, creative, and scientific approach that made the first edition a success. The authors include all types of family structures, processes, and contexts, and their approach is informed by families as intimate settings for individual and relational development where both care and trauma occur.

New highlights of this completely up-to-date and revised edition include two new chapters on topics that have gained increasing relevance: Critical Race Theory and Queer Theory; strengthened research and application about family diversity in each chapter; fresh multimedia suggestions; voices from lived experience; and more extensive outreach to a broader array of relevant disciplines.

Psychosocial Pathology and Social Work Practice provides readers with an overview of mental health disorders and their criteria according to the DSM-5, as well as practical information to guide them through assessment and the differential diagnosis process. The opening chapter provides readers with an introduction to psychosocial pathology and social work. Additional chapters examine neurodevelopmental disorders, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, anxiety disorders, trauma- and stressor-related disorders, gender dysphoria, and substance-related and addictive disorders, among others. Each chapter of the text provides racial, ethnic, cultural, and gendered consideration of each diagnosis; a complex multidimensional case study; a full diagnosis; a detailed explanation of how the diagnoses were determined; and a decision tree for each diagnosis.

Group Counseling: Strategies and Skills provides readers with a comprehensive exploration of group counseling with emphasis on critical techniques for effective group leadership.

The ninth edition features new content related to the social justice movement as well as leading groups during times of crisis such as the global pandemic that began in 2020. Each chapter has been updated to include learning objectives, information on leading groups virtually, and case studies. The section about leading groups of children and adolescents has been expanded, and references throughout the text have been updated.

“During the summer of 2020, in the wake of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, the team at Cognella came together to determine new ways in which we could support the Black community. While it has always been important for us as a publisher to give a voice to historically underrepresented authors in academia, we knew we could do even more. We wanted to leverage what we do best—publishing—and also make a difference in a meaningful way. We decided we could make a significant impact by publishing a free book that highlights the contemporary battle for equity and the lived experiences of those in the Black community.” – Bassim Hamadeh, Cognella Founder and CEO

About the Book 

At the heart of racist attitudes and behaviors is anti-Black racism, which simply put, is the disregard and disdain of Black life. Anti-Black racism negatively impacts every aspect of the lives of Black people.

Edited by renowned scholar and psychologist Kevin Cokley, Making Black Lives Matter: Confronting Anti-Black Racism explores the history and contemporary circumstances of anti-Black racism, offers powerful personal anecdotes, and provides recommendations and solutions to challenging anti-Black racism in its various expressions.

The book features chapters written by scholars, practitioners, activists, and students. The chapters reflect diverse perspectives from the Black community and writing styles that range from scholarly text supported by cited research to personal narratives that highlight the lived experiences of the contributors. The book focuses on the ways that anti-Black racism manifests and has been confronted across various domains of Black life using research, activism, social media, and therapy.

About the Editor

Kevin Cokley, Ph.D. is a distinguished teaching professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Educational Psychology and the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Oscar and Anne Mauzy Regents Professorship for Educational Research and Development. He is the director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis. Dr. Cokley holds the title Distinguished Psychologist from the Association of Black Psychologists and is the past editor-in-chief of the Journal of Black Psychology. His research focuses on African American psychology with a focus on racial identity development, academic achievement, and the impostor phenomenon. He holds a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Georgia State University and M.Ed. in counselor education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Series editors: Miguel Gallardo, Psy.D.; Allen Ivey, Ed.D., ABPP; Joseph E. Trimble, Ph.D.; Norweeta G. Milburn, Ph.D.; and Sumie Okazaki, Ph.D.

The Cognella Series on Advances in Culture, Race, and Ethnicity is a collection of key volumes that address the timely topics of race, culture, multiculturalism, diversity, and working with various populations within a variety of fields. Written and edited by leading scholars in diverse disciplines, the volumes are highly practical, focused, and designed to supplement textbooks used across the curriculum.

This series is co-sponsored by Division 45, the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race, of the American Psychological Association.