The Counseling Process - Softcover

Patterson, Lewis E.; Welfel, Elizabeth Reynolds

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534358667 ISBN 13: 9780534358662

Publisher: Brooks Cole, 1999

Synopsis

This concise introduction to the counseling process elaborates a three-stage model of counseling, including disclosure, exploration, and action planning, and describes the counselor skills, attitudes, and knowledge essential to therapeutic change. The text assumes an integrated theoretical position, introducing ideas from a variety of theoretical perspectives and explaining how each might contribute to the counselor's work. Full chapters cover: working with children, working with older adults, crisis intervention, gender and multicultural factors, and professional ethics. The Fifth Edition offers a greater focus on skills, incorporates new case studies, and incorporates material on brief therapy.

About this title

About the Author:

Professor Emeritus Lewis Patterson taught counseling theory, career development, adult development and psychopharmacology at Cleveland State University, where he was director of doctoral studies in the College of Education. Dr. Patterson began his work as a counselor educator while a doctoral student at Pennsylvania State University, and served on the counseling faculty at Boston University before coming to Cleveland.

Review:

"The Fifth Edition of The Counseling Process refines and expands on essential concepts, strategies and interventions in counseling practice. Page after page, the text offers sound ides and essential information for addressing the needs of divers client populations in counseling."

About this edition

• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0534358667
• ISBN 13: 9780534358662
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 384