For upper-class undergraduates or beginning-level graduates in a variety of helping disciplines.
A practical, readable text that introduces readers to basic counseling skills and emphasizes counselor development and counseling diversity.
Counseling Strategies and Interventions, now in its eighth edition, is a comprehensive, skills-oriented, and pragmatic text that provides students with an accessible introduction to the real world of counseling. The far-reaching but concise text includes a variety of learning and application exercises to help students become empathetic and effective members of the counseling profession. The new edition includes current issues and recently published sources to reflect the most contemporary thinking about the helping professions, including new material on supervision, ethical issues, multicultural issues, and the stages of change.
Features + Benefits
Real-world examples, vignettes, and client case studies in each chapter are designed to model and illustrate the chapter's key concepts and skills in the most useful and pragmatic manner.
Practical exercises and discussion questions interspersed throughout the text provide students with opportunities to practice and apply the skills and strategies presented in each chapter.
An emphasis on multicultural counseling offers students a in-depth look at diversity in counseling, including cultural competence, cultural empathy, gender and counseling, spirituality and counseling, and counseling within different client social systems.
A focus on specific skills like listening and understanding silence (Chapters 3 and 4) and session management (Chapter 5) provide everyday strategies for prospective counselors.
An extensive discussion of credentialing and licensing of counselors in the first chapter gives students vital information on the logistics and process of entering the counseling profession.
Brief Contents
Chapter 1 The Helping Profession
Chapter 2 The Helping Relationship
Chapter 3 Attending to Clients
Chapter 4 Communication Patterns in the Helping Process
Chapter 5 Managing the Helping Session
Chapter 6 Responding to Affective Content
Chapter 7 Responding to Cognitive Content
Chapter 8 Conceptualizing Issues and Setting Goals
Chapter 9 Using Integrative Helping Strategies and Interventions
Chapter 10 Common Challenges for Beginning Helpers
Appendix A: Websites for Ethical Codes and Related Standards of Professional Organizations
Appendix B: Counseling Strategies Checklist
References
Index
A practical, readable text that introduces readers to basic counseling skills and emphasizes counselor development and counseling diversity.
Counseling Strategies and Interventions, now in its eighth edition, is a comprehensive, skills-oriented, and pragmatic text that provides students with an accessible introduction to the real world of counseling. The far-reaching but concise text includes a variety of learning and application exercises to help students become empathetic and effective members of the counseling profession. The new edition includes current issues and recently published sources to reflect the most contemporary thinking about the helping professions, including new material on supervision, ethical issues, multicultural issues, and the stages of change.
Features + Benefits
Real-world examples, vignettes, and client case studies in each chapter are designed to model and illustrate the chapter's key concepts and skills in the most useful and pragmatic manner.
Practical exercises and discussion questions interspersed throughout the text provide students with opportunities to practice and apply the skills and strategies presented in each chapter.
An emphasis on multicultural counseling offers students a in-depth look at diversity in counseling, including cultural competence, cultural empathy, gender and counseling, spirituality and counseling, and counseling within different client social systems.
A focus on specific skills like listening and understanding silence (Chapters 3 and 4) and session management (Chapter 5) provide everyday strategies for prospective counselors.
An extensive discussion of credentialing and licensing of counselors in the first chapter gives students vital information on the logistics and process of entering the counseling profession.
Brief Contents
Chapter 1 The Helping Profession
Chapter 2 The Helping Relationship
Chapter 3 Attending to Clients
Chapter 4 Communication Patterns in the Helping Process
Chapter 5 Managing the Helping Session
Chapter 6 Responding to Affective Content
Chapter 7 Responding to Cognitive Content
Chapter 8 Conceptualizing Issues and Setting Goals
Chapter 9 Using Integrative Helping Strategies and Interventions
Chapter 10 Common Challenges for Beginning Helpers
Appendix A: Websites for Ethical Codes and Related Standards of Professional Organizations
Appendix B: Counseling Strategies Checklist
References
Index