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Exceptional Senior Student Affairs Administrators' Leadership: Strategies and Competencies for Success

This book is written primarily for aspiring, new, and seasoned senior student affairs administrators who seek to become highly effective in their roles as campus and community leaders. The contributing authors—higher education leaders who range from presidents to senior student affairs officers to leadership experts—share their perspectives and strategies for leveraging seven threads of enduring competencies for exceptionally effective leadership:

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More Than Listening: A Casebook for Using Counseling Skills in Student Affairs Work

More Than Listening is written for those student affairs practitioners with limited educational or experiential backgrounds in counseling or mental health services. It provides a model for how both student development and counseling theories can inform and enhance student affairs practice. The book presents a series of case studies based on composites of situations typically handled by student affairs professionals. Each scenario is followed by two theory-based responses: one drawing on student development theories and student affairs practice; and the other grounded in counseling theory and suggesting or modeling practical helping skills.

Enough is Enough: A Student Affairs Perspective on Preparedness and Response to a Campus Shooting

Enough is Enough presents first-hand accounts and experienced counsel from professionals who have lived through a violent incident, and continue to deal with its aftermath. They cover violence, suicide prevention, and mental health promotion in an integrated way, and offer a comprehensive plan to create a campus-wide system for collecting information about students at-risk for self-harm or violence toward others.

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