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Counseling Theories: Essential Concepts and Applications
Samuel T. Gladding, Wake Forest University

ISBN-10: 0131138456
ISBN-13:  9780131138452

Publisher:  Merrill
Copyright:  2005
Format:  Paper; 272 pp
Published:  06/21/2004
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For Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy courses.

This practical text provides clear, succinct coverage of the core concepts of all of the major contemporary theories of counseling and psychotherapy, including separate chapters on solution-focused and on feminist theory.  Each theory chapter begins by discussing the major theorist or theorists responsible for the theory.  The chapters then examine how the theory views (1) human nature, (2) the role of the therapist in counseling, and (3) the theraputic process and techniques.  Chapters then present an evaluation of the theory, including an assessment of multicultural and gender issues.  Then each chapter concludes by applying the theory to a single case–the case of Linda–that is used across all of the chapters.  The text is ideal for instructors who want to give their students a clear understanding of theories' essential concepts and applications.


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A focus on the essential concepts and applications of theories—Has produced a 256 page book that presents students with clear, understandable coverage of individual theories and therapies. (See any of the theories chapters.)

  • Helps students gain a concrete understanding of the underlying assumptions of each theory and the principles that guide its practice. The text is also $40 to $50 less expensive than most other theories texts.

A uniform organization within each theory chapter—major theorist(s); view of human nature/personality; role of the counselor; goals, processes and techniques of therapy; multicultural and gender issues; evaluation; and application of theory to the case of Linda.  (See detailed table of contents in the book.)

  • Facilitates theory-to-theory comparisons for maximum understanding—gives students a scaffold on which to hang similarities and differences among current theories and those yet to come.

Each chapter presents multicultural and gender issues and a more general evaluation of the theory. (See pages 115-117 for an example.)

  • Provides students with an overview of the strengths and weaknesses researchers and practioners have found in the use of each theory. 

Each theory is applied to the same case study—Showing readers how each therapy would approach helping the client Linda.  (See pages 117-118 for an example.) 

  • Illustrates the use of each therapy with a representative counseling client—gives students a bona fide feel for how each therapy addresses the same situation, and what particular perspective each contributes to the therapy session.


Table of Contents



1. Theories and Therapies.


2. Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Theories.


3. Adlerian Therapy.


4. Existential Therapy.


5. Person-Centered Therapy.


6. Gestalt Therapy.


7. Reality Therapy.


8. Behavioral Therapy.


9. Cognitive and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy.


10. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.


11. Transactional Analysis.


12. Feminist Therapy.


13. Bowen Family Systems Therapy.


14. Strategic Family Therapy.


15. Solution-Focused Therapy.


16. Comparing Theories and Therapies.

Epilogue.

Index.


 



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Samuel T. Gladding is the chair of and a professor in the Department of Counseling at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He has been a practicing counselor in both public and private agencies since 1971. His leadership in the field of counseling includes service as president of the American Counseling Association, the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, the Association for Specialists in Group Work, and Chi Sigma Iota (an international counseling honor society).

Gladding is the former editor of the Journal for Specialists in Group Work and the author of more than 100 professional publications. In 1999 he was cited as being in the top 1% of contributors to the Journal of Counseling and Development for the 15-year period 1978-1993. Some of Gladding's most recent books are Counseling: A Comprehensive Profession (5th ed., 2004); The Creative Arts in Counseling (3rd ed., 2005); Community and Agency Counseling (with Debbie Newsome) (2nd ed., 2004); Group Work: A Counseling Specialty (4th ed., 2003); Family Therapy: History, Theory, & Process (3rd ed., 2002); Becoming a Counselor: The Light, the Bright, and the Serious (2002); and The Counseling Dictionary (2001).

Gladding's previous academic appointments have been at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Fairfield University (Connecticut). He also worked as director of children's services in a mental health center and in a private practice counseling group for a number of years. Gladding received his degrees from Wake Forest (B. A., M. A., Ed.), Yale (M. A., Religion.), and the University of North Carolina-Greensboro (Ph.D.). He is a National Certified Counselor, a Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor, and a Licensed Professional Counselor (North Carolina). Gladding is a former member of both the Alabama Board of Examiners in Counseling and the Research and Assessment Corporation for Counseling. He is also a Fellow in the Association for Specialists in Group Work.

Dr. Gladding is married to the former Claire Tillson and is the father of three children—Ben, Nate, and Tim. In addition to counseling, he enjoys tennis, swimming, and humor.

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