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This comprehensive and readable book covers a wide variety of theories, methods, and settings in counseling. Covers professional foundations, overviews the counseling process and key theories, and examines counseling as it is practiced in a variety of situations including marriage and family, career, and more. Examines history, theories, ethics, diversity, life span, gender, assessment, research, and specialty areas such as mental health, substance abuse, school, and college. For anyone interested in an introduction to counseling.
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In addition to overviewing counseling's history as both a generic and specialized part of the helping profession, its theories, processes, issues, specialties, and trends, Gladding (counselor education, Wake Forest U.) in this edition (last, 1996 copyright) concentrates on the importance of the personhood of counselors and the multicultural, ethical, legal, and consultative environments in which they practice. Includes classroom activities. Appends the ethical standards of the American Counseling Association and the American Psychological Association, classifications from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 4th ed. , and a list of counseling-related organizations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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