This text presents counselling in a broad manner covering its history, theories, activities, specialties and trends. In addition, this book concentrates on the importance of the personhood of counsellors and of the multicultural, ethical and legal environments in which counsellors operate. By focusing on the context and process of counselling, this book provides you with a better idea of what counsellors do and how they do it. Materials in Counselling: A Comprehensive Profession, Seventh Edition, have been divided into four main sections. At the beginning of each Chapter is a brief, focused section on learning objectives. This feature is followed by some suggestions readers should consider regarding these objectives. This new feature will help those who study this text reflect in a more focused way and learn Chapter material more easily.
Features:
1.New graphs and tables have been inserted into the text. Many times those who study need visual cues as to what is being described. The new visuals will meet this need while not affecting the narrative surrounding them.
2. This edition of Counselling: A Comprehensive Profession has over 275 new citations within its pages and dozens of older references that are not as relevant anymore have been deleted.
Contents:
Chapter 1 History of and Trends in Counselling
Chapter 2 Personal and Professional Aspects of Counselling
Chapter 3 Ethical and Legal Aspects of Counselling
Chapter 4 Counselling in a Multicultural Society
Chapter 5 Counselling with Diverse Populations
Chapter 6 Building Counselling Relationships
Chapter 7 Working in a Counselling Relationship
Chapter 8 Closing Counselling Relationships
Chapter 9 Psychoanalytic, Adlerian and Humanistic Theories of Counselling
Chapter 10 Behavioural, Cognitive, Systemic, Brief and Crisis Theories of Counselling
Chapter 11 Groups in Counselling
Chapter 12 Consultation
Chapter 13 Evaluation and Research
Chapter 14 Testing, Assessment and Diagnosis in Counselling
Chapter 15 Career Counselling Over the Life Span
Chapter 16 Marriage, Couple and Family Counselling
Chapter 17 Professional School Counselling
Chapter 18 College
Chapter 19 Abuse, Addiction, Disability and Counselling
Chapter 20 Clinical Mental Health and Private Practice Counselling
