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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.

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Understanding that clients exist within a web of community conditions - schools, neighborhoods, policies, and social norms - this deeply relevant book equips counselors to recognize, assess, and respond to the mental health challenges shaped by social determinants of health. This resource moves beyond symptom-focused care to address "the causes of the causes" behind mental health outcomes. Using vivid case examples, practitioner insights, and reflective questions that are relevant across diverse practice settings, counselors are empowered to act on what truly drives well-being and to champion a more equitable, compassionate approach to mental health.

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. Social determinants of mental health (SDMH) not only serve as a lynchpin that unifies the myriad bio-psycho-social-cultural-political influences on mental health but also as a skeleton key that can unlock pathways to mental health based on client-specific cues about well-being. This text represents the first of its kind within the counseling literature to provide a depiction of how an SDMH framework can serve as an ontological impetus for holistic and developmentally focused counseling practice that is firmly rooted in social justice and equity-minded action. The SDMH have been embraced by related health professions such as psychiatry, clinical psychology, counseling psychology, and social work with each providing specialized periodical and text resources through their member organizations.

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Introduction

Chapter 1 - Social Determinants of Mental Health and Professional Counseling: A Call for Action

SECTION 1: Frameworks, Concepts, and Opportunities for Action 

Chapter 2 - Focusing In: Social Determinants of Mental Health Frameworks and Concepts 

Chapter 3 - Models for Addressing SDMH Frameworks 

SECTION 2: Professional Counseling and Change

Chapter 4 - Motivation and Readiness across the Ecology of Change

Chapter 5 - SDMH-Informed Approaches to Prevention 

Chapter 6 - SDMH-Informed Interventions with Individuals 

Chapter 7 - SDMH-Informed Interventions with Groups and Communities 

Chapter 8 - SDMH as a Basis for Advocacy and Social Change

SECTION 3: Future Directions for the Integration of the Social Determinants of Mental 

Health into Professional Counseling

Chapter 9 - Integrating Social Determinants of Mental Health into Clinical Supervision

Chapter 10 - Embracing Social Determinants of Mental Health in Counseling Practice: 

Reflections, Challenges, and Future Directions