David Shepard, Jeffrey Kottler

Introduction to Counseling: Voices from the Field

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

INTRODUCTION TO COUNSELING, Eighth Edition provides a comprehensive overview of the counseling profession while encouraging readers to examine the day-to-day realities of being a counselor as well as their motivation for choosing the profession. Coverage includes information on what counseling is as well as its history, theoretical orientations, applications, and professional issues. As readers become engaged in the process of learning and applying counseling concepts, they get an unparalleled look at what their professional futures may hold.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brooks/Cole / Cengage Learning EMEA
• 8. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 185mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 812g
• ISBN-13: 9781285084763
• ISBN-10: 1285084764
• Artikelnr.: 39402614

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey A. Kottler, Ph.D., is Professor in the Counseling Department at California State University, Fullerton, and one of the foremost authorities and prolific writers in the fields of counseling, psychology, and education. He is the best-selling author of more than 80 nonfiction books that deal with a wide range of subjects including personal development, group leadership, professional development of psychotherapists and teachers, social justice, true crime, and a variety of contemporary issues related to helping and healing, truth and lies, creativity, transformative travel, and stress management. In addition to his private practice, Jeffrey has worked as a teacher, counselor, and therapist in preschool, middle school, mental health center, crisis center, university, and community college settings. He has served as a Fulbright Scholar and Senior Lecturer in Peru and Iceland, teaching counseling theory and practice. He has also served as a visiting professor in New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, Nepal, and other countries. In addition, Jeffrey is President of Empower Nepali Girls, a foundation that provides scholarships for at-risk children in Nepal.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: THE PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR.
1. What Counseling Is and How It Works.
2. Foundations of Counselors.
3. Settings for Counseling.
4. The Therapeutic Relationship.
Part II: COUNSELING APPROACHES.
5. Insight-Oriented Approaches.
6. Action-Oriented Approaches.
7. Integrating Theory and Counseling Skills.
8. Assessment, Testing, and the Diagnostic Process.
Part III: COUNSELING APPLICATIONS.
9. Group Counseling.
10. Couples, Family, and Sex Counseling.
11. Career Counseling.
12. Addictions Counseling and Psychopharmacology.
13. Counseling Diverse Clients.
Part IV: PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE.
14. Ethical and Legal Issues.
15. Toward Closure: Advice for the Passionately Committed Counseling Student.