Before You See Your First Client: 55 Things Counselors, Therapists and Human Service Workers Need to Know

Before You See Your First Client begins where courses, workshops, training seminars, and textbooks leave off, providing a candid behind-the-scenes look at the fields of therapy, counseling and human services. In a reader-friendly and accessible style, Dr. Howard Rosenthal offers his readers 55 useful and practical ideas for the implementation, improvement, and expansion of one's mental health practice. Based on the author's own personal experiences, the book is written in an intimate and personal style to which inexperienced and beginning therapists can easily relate.

Howard Rosenthal, Ed.D., NCC, is Director of the Human Services Program at St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley. A longtime Brunner-Routledge (and before that Accelerated Development) author, Dr. Rosenthal is the author of, among other best-selling Brunner-Routledge titles, The Encyclopedia of Counseling.