I never knew I had a choice - Softcover

Corey, Gerald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534012019 ISBN 13: 9780534012014

Publisher: Brooks/Cole Pub. Co, 1983

Synopsis

Thousands of readers have been touched by Jerry and Marianne Corey's warm, frank, and very personal book, I Never Knew I Had a Choice. This book is designed to help students expand their self-awareness as they explore the significant choices available to them in the various dimensions of life. As students work through the book's self-inventories, exercises, and activities and read the first-person accounts of the choices real people have made in response to challenging life events, they will begin to explore themselves, their lives, and their beliefs and attitudes in a way that is personally empowering.

About this title

About the Author:

Gerald Corey is Professor Emeritus of Human Services at California State University at Fullerton; a Diplomate in Counseling Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology; a licensed psychologist; a National Certified Counselor; a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Counseling Psychology); a Fellow of the American Counseling Association; and a Fellow of the Association for Specialists in Group Work. Dr. Corey taught undergraduate and graduate courses in group counseling, as well as courses in experiential groups, the theory and practice of counseling, and ethics in counseling. He is the author or co-author of 15 counseling textbooks currently in print and numerous journal articles. Along with his wife, Marianne Schneider Corey, Dr. Corey has conducted group counseling training workshops for mental health professionals at many universities in the United States, Canada, Mexico, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Germany, Belgium, Scotland, England, and Ireland. The two received the Association for Specialists in Group Work's Eminent Career Award in 2001. Dr. Corey earned his doctorate in counseling from the University of Southern California.

Marianne Schneider Corey is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California and is a National Certified Counselor. Marianne has been actively involved in providing training and supervision workshops in group process for human-services students and professionals; she regularly facilitates a self-exploration group for graduate students in counseling and co-facilitates weeklong residential workshops in personal growth. With Jerry, Marianne has conducted workshops in various countries.

Review:

I Never Knew I Had A Choice (now in its sixth edition) is designed to help readers expand their self-awareness as they explore the significant choices available to them in the various dimensions of life, including: work and leisure, wellness and lifestyle, stress and coping, sex roles and sexuality, love and intimate relationships, loneliness and solitudes, death and loss, meaning and values. As readers work through the self inventories, exercises,and activities (reading the first-person accounts of the choices real people have made in response to challenging life events) they will begin to explore themselves, their lives, their attitudes, and their beliefs. I Never Knew I Had A Choice is a splendid addition to any personal or public self-help book collection. -- Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Brooks/Cole Pub. Co
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0534012019
• ISBN 13: 9780534012014
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 427