Theories of Psychotherapy and Counseling: Concepts and Cases - Hardcover

Sharf, Richard S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0534364853 ISBN 13: 9780534364854

Publisher: Brooks Cole, 1999

Synopsis

In this extensive revision of his illuminating text, Richard S. Sharf presents significant theories that provide a systematic approach to the helping professions. Comprehensive yet succinct in its description and explanation of of the major theories of psychotherapy and counseling, THEORIES OF PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELING: CONCEPTS AND CASES, SECOND EDITION makes ample use of case summaries and client-therapist dialogue. This approach demonstrates how each of 12 major theories can be applied to common psychological disorders (such as depression, anxiety, and borderline disorders) or to modes of treatment (such as individual, couples, families, and groups). Sharf's skillful blending of concepts and examples makes psychotherapy and counseling clearer and more real for the student wanting to learn more about the therapeutic process. For each therapy presented in the text, information about background, personality theory, and theory of psychotherapy provides a means for understanding the application of psychotherapy theory. Through a discussion of goals, assessment, therapeutic relationships, and techniques, as well as current issues that each theory translates in to action. Sharf draws on the knowledge of over 50 experts in a wide variety of theoretical approaches to psychotherapy and counseling. Each specialist provided suggestions for inclusion of specific content as well as reviews of chapters at various stages of the book's developmental. This consultative approach brings a new dimension and candor to the material. Experts make contributions to the discussion of Psychoanalysis, Jungian Analysis and Therapy, Adlerian Therapy, Existential Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Behavior Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Reality Therapy, Feminist Therapy, Family Systems Therapy, and Alternative Therapies.

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About the Author

Richard S. Sharf has been a counseling psychologist at the Center for Counseling and Student Development at the University of Delaware for 37 years, providing counseling to university students. He also was the internship coordinator for the Psychology Doctoral Internship program. In addition, he taught graduate courses in counseling in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies. In writing THEORIES OF PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELING: CONCEPTS AND CASES, he corresponded with over 70 experts on theories of psychotherapy to ensure that the book is accurate and up to date. He is also author of APPLYING CAREER DEVELOPMENT THEORY TO COUNSELING, 6th Edition (©2014, Cengage Learning).

Review

"Comprehensive...with interesting case examples demonstrating techniques, containing both theorists' backgrounds and evolution of theories themselves, and other topics of current intrigue in the field. It is logically organized, sophisticated, clearly written, research based, and refers students to primary source material for further examination."

"Theories of Psychotherapy and Counseling is clearly the textbook for the fin de siecle. It provides a comprehensive overview of the development of psychotherapy across the twentieth century and prepares the reader to enter the twenty-first with fresh applications that consider multicultural and gender implications for therapy."

About this edition

• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0534364853
• ISBN 13: 9780534364854
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 750