The Professional Counselor: A Process Guide to Helping (5th Edition)

Hackney, Harold L.; Cormier, Sherry

ISBN 10: 0205410650 / ISBN 13: 9780205410651

Published by Allyn & Bacon, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Professional Counselor: A Process Guide to Helping (5th Edition)
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0205410650
• ISBN 13: 9780205410651
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

This text presents the beginning counselor with the counseling skills, interventions and strategies for conceptualizing theoretically, planning therapy for change, and developing a means for self-assessment. Provides readers with the skills necessary to be an effective counselor. In this Fifth Edition, new sections have been added that address counseling consultation and peer supervision issues and how specific counseling skills are utilized in these roles. The authors have maintained the basic organization of the text beginning with an overview of the stages of counseling, specific goals and interventions for each stage, and including chapters on affective, behavioral, cognitive and systemic interventions, and termination. Counseling, SW and other Helping Professions students and professionals.

From the Back Cover

The new edition of this popular text gives the counseling student and beginning counselor the skills, interventions and strategies needed to develop a conceptual orientation, plan therapy, and assess its effectiveness.

Highlights of the 5th edition:

• Skill summary tables help the reader identify specific interventions that are used to work with affective, cognitive, behavioral, and systemic agendas.
• Chapter 12 has been completely revised to include three important counselor functions: Crisis intervention, Consultation, and Peer Supervision.
• Introduces strategies for responding to counseling crises in school or community settings. Stages of crisis intervention, established skills and interventions that respond to crisis, and planning for post-crisis support are included.
• Introduces strategies for planning consultation activities in the school or agency and for ways to organize effective peer supervision activities during and after training. Students are prepared to continue their growth beyond the formal training process.
• Provides structure for establishing peer supervision relationships for the advanced- or post-graduate counselor, including stages of peer supervision development, skills and interventions appropriate to peer supervision, and client-support.

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