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Counseling through Community Conditions represents a comprehensive and contemporary resource for counselors and related mental health professionals across settings who wish to embody an approach to their practice that accounts for the full range of community conditions that influence development.
Every client’s story unfolds within a web of community conditions—schools, neighborhoods, policies, and social norms—that shape opportunities for mental health. Counseling Through Community Conditions: Integrating the Social Determinants of Mental Health Across Practice Settings guides practitioners beyond symptom-focused care to address the causes of the causes behind mental health outcomes.
Through vivid case examples, practitioner insights, and reflective questions, readers learn to recognize, assess, and respond to the mental health challenges shaped by social determinants of mental health (SDoMH). Relevant across diverse practice settings, this book equips counselors to integrate SDoMH perspectives into prevention, intervention, supervision, and advocacy. Leading counselor educators A. Stephen Lenz and Kaprea F. Johnson invite readers to view human development and well-being through a broader, more connected lens. Counseling Through Community Conditions empowers counselors to act on what truly drives well-being and to champion a more equitable, compassionate approach to mental health, grounded in the places where people live, learn, work, and grow.
Kaprea F. Johnson, PhD, LPC, NCC, is a tenured Full Professor and Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Recognition at The Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio. Dr. Johnson is a nationally recognized scholar, and public-facing academic, who is energized by the ability to discover and change inequitable systems to support and serve communities across the lifespan. Her research is focused on creating and evaluating interventions and training healthcare professionals to address the social determinants of health (SDOH), which are nonmedical factors, such as food insecurity, discrimination, and healthcare access that influence health and wellness outcomes for all people.
A. Stephen Lenz, PhD, LPC-S is a Professor of Counselor Education at Texas A&M University San Antonio. He is a 16-year licensed professional counselor who holds degrees in counselor education, clinical psychology, and community health promotion. Dr. Lenz is the past-president of national and state divisions of the Assessment and Research in Counseling. Dr. Lenz has over 100 professional publications including several peer-reviewed journal articles, 22 book chapters, and 3 books (ACA, Pearson, Routledge). Dr. Lenz is a Fellow of the American Counseling Association and also a recipient of their Best Practice and Professional Development awards. He has received outstanding publication awards from several ACA-family associations including the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling, the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, and the Association for Specialists in Group Work.
Chapter 1: Social Determinants of Mental Health and Professional Counseling
Chapter 2: Focusing In: Social Determinants of Mental Health Frameworks and Concepts
Chapter 3: Models for Addressing Social Determinants of Mental Health
Chapter 4: Motivation and Readiness Across the Ecology of Change
Chapter 5: SDoMH-Informed Approaches to Prevention
Chapter 6: SDoMH-Informed Approaches to Prevention
Chapter 7: SDoMH-Informed Interventions With Communities
Chapter 8: SDoMH as a Basis for Advocacy and Social Change
Chapter 9: Integrating the SDoMH into Clinical Supervision
Chapter 10: Embracing SDoMH in Counseling Practice: Reflections, Expansion, and Future Directions
Index