Counseling Strategies and Interventions

A practical, readable text that introduces readers to basic counseling skills and emphasizes counselor development and counseling diversity.

Counseling Strategies and Interventions, now in its eighth edition, is a comprehensive, skills-oriented, and pragmatic text that provides students with an accessible introduction to the real world of counseling. The far-reaching but concise text includes a variety of learning and application exercises to help students become empathetic and effective members of the counseling profession. The new edition includes current issues and recently published sources to reflect the most contemporary thinking about the helping professions, including new material on supervision, ethical issues, multicultural issues, and the stages of change.

With a unique focus on practical skills and real-world strategies, the newly revised eighth edition of Counseling Strategies and Interventions is concerned with developing and nurturing effective, reasoned, and empathetic counseling professionals. A comprehensive yet concise introduction to all aspects of counseling, this highly readable text covers a range of topics including ethical issues, multicultural issues, listening skills, the utilization of supervision, session management, advocacy roles, and credentialing.

 

Filled with even more helpful features and tools — including case studies, discussion questions, vignettes, real-world examples, and exercises — the new eighth edition of the text also includes new material and expanded coverage of the most current advances and research in the counseling field. In addition, the interactive website MyHelpingLab provides students with a wealth of videos, exercises, and other online resources.