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This concise introduction to the counseling process elaborates a three-stage model of counseling, including disclosure, exploration, and action planning, and describes the counselor skills, attitudes, and knowledge essential to therapeutic change. The text assumes an integrated theoretical position, introducing ideas from a variety of theoretical perspectives and explaining how each might contribute to the counselors work. Full chapters cover: working with children, crisis intervention, gender and multicultural factors, and professional ethics.
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Presents a three-stage model of counseling discourse, exploration, and action planning and describes the counselor skills, attitudes, and knowledge essential to therapeutic change. Introduces ideas from a variety of theoretical perspectives on working with children, crisis intervention, gender and multicultural factors, and professional ethics. This fourth edition includes a new chapter on multicultural/gender issues and explains ways to adapt the process when counselor and client are of different gender or ethnic backgrounds. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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