Southeastern professor pens book

Press Release Date: 07-15-2009

DURANT, Okla. – A new book by Dr. Daniel J. Weigel, Associate Professor and Community Counseling Program Coordinator in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, is now available on Amazon.

The book, "The Challenges of Rural Clinical Mental Health Counseling: A Comprehensive Overview and Analysis," is a look at a variety of issues related to rural mental health service delivery.

Weigel said, "Rural professional counselors face many unique practice challenges when compared to their urban counterparts. This book serves as a voice for the rural counselor and examines many of these issues to help educate the mental health community in general with regard to these challenges."

"Based upon my many years of experience in rural counseling, supervision, and educational settings, I felt compelled to pull together as much information as possible into a single source to offer support to my rural mental health colleagues."

Weigel has taught graduate counseling courses in the Master's Degree Programs in Community and School Counseling at SE for the past seven years.

He is now the Community Counseling Program Coordinator and Chair of the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) Accreditation Committee. Along with other members of the Behavioral Sciences Department, Weigel is working toward the goal of achieving national specialty accreditation of the community counseling program through CACREP.

Weigel also serves as the Vice-Chair of the Oklahoma Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) Licensure Board and was honored in 2008 as Oklahoma's Counselor of the Year.