ABSTRACT
Why do we do what we do? In Chapter 1 you met some beginning students and learned what brought them into a counseling program. Others students in their first class came for different reasons:
Tamika states that never a day goes by that people don’t tell her their personal problems. She has a degree in sociology and went on for training as a credentialed masseuse. Now 32, she believes a counseling credential will legitimatize what she has been doing for the last few years. Her neighbor, Jan, a divorced grandmother who never worked outside the home, has come into the class because she says she had a wonderful counselor who changed her life. She wants to do the same for other women. She is not entirely sure she can be a counselor but she would like to try. Forty-five-year-old Carlos is a Sergeant Major in the U.S. Army about to retire after 25 years’ service. He knows the toll war takes on soldiers and their families. He wants to spend the next phase of his life helping other members of the military transition into civilian life and careers just as he is about to do.
