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Professional Counselor, The: A Process Guide to Helping, 5/E
Harold L. Hackney, Syracuse University
Sherry Cormier, West Virginia University

ISBN-10: 0205410650
ISBN-13: 9780205410651

Publisher: Merrill
Copyright: 2005
Format: Cloth; 408 pp
Published: 03/18/2004

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This text presents the counseling student and beginning counselor with the necessary skills, interventions and strategies for conceptualizing theoretically, planning therapy for change, and developing a means for self-assessment.

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. The text provides a conceptual structure for viewing the counseling process and then examines each part of that structure in depth, addressing necessary counseling skills.

  • A specific case is carried through the intervention chapters, which allows students to visualize the same case with different treatments.
  • Provides a five-step model (used by the NCE examination) to give students a 'roadmap' for assessing client progress and to help students plan for interventions. This encourages students to view counseling as an evolving process with an end in sight (Chs. 2, 3, 4 and 5).
  • Shows students how to assess cases using four theoretical contexts—affective, cognitive, behavioral, and systemic. Students are able to apply what they have learned in counseling theory to the practice of counseling (Chs. 7, 8, 9 and 10).
  • Theoretically defined intervention strategies allow counseling trainees to take conceptualized cases and identify appropriate treatment plans.
  • Coverage of spiritual topics presents beginning counselors with alternatives to use when working with clients.
  • This book has separate chapters on client assessment and on treatment planning (Chs. 4 and 6). Students are able to incorporate these skills at the time they are learning specific counseling interventions.
  • Discussion of treatment planning reflects the growing influence of managed care and the necessity to know how to do treatment planning that will meet managed care criteria.
  • Helpful boxed material appears throughout chapters to summarize and illustrate skills.
  • Appendix B includes forms and guides for managing counseling cases.

  • Skill summaries (tables) have been added in Chapters 7 through 10 to 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. (see below)

    • 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.

All chapters conclude with “Summary,” “Exercises,” “Feedback for Exercises,” “Discussion Questions,” and “Additional Resources.”

Preface.


1. The Context for Counseling.

What Is Counseling?

The Parameters of Counseling.

Counseling Conditions and Their Effects.

Case Illustration of Possible Counseling Outcomes.

Characteristics of Effective Helpers.

The Developmental Nature of Learning to Counsel.



2. Stages and Skills of Counseling.

Steps in the Counseling Process.

The Client's Experience in Counseling.



3. Rapport and Relationship.

Characteristics of the Real Relationship.

Communicating Empathy.

Conditions That Convey Genuineness.

Conditions That Convey Positive Regard.

Functions of a Therapeutic Relationship.

Effects of Therapeutic Relationships on Clients.

The Relationship Stage.

Children and the Counseling Relationship.



4. Assessing Client Problems.

Purposes of Assessment.

Components of Assessment.

Clinical Assessment with Children.

Clinical Assessment with Couples and Families.

Using Assessment Information.

Skills Associated with Assessment.

Effects of Assessment on Clients.

The Intake Interview.

Integration of Problem-Definition Information with Treatment Planning.



5. Developing Counseling Goals.

Functions of Counseling Goals.

Parameters of Goal-Setting: Process and Outcome Goals.

Three Elements of Good Outcome Goals.

Obstacles in Developing Specific Goals.

Skills Associated with Goal-Setting.

Effects of Goal-Setting on Clients.

Goal-Setting with Children.

Goal-Setting and Multicultural Issues.

Existential and Spiritual Goal-Setting.

Client Participation in Goal-Setting.

Resistance to Goal-Setting.

Case Illustration of Goal-Setting.



6. Defining Strategies and Selecting Interventions.

Theory and Case Conceptualization.

Worldview and Case Conceptualization.

Conceptualizing Presenting Problems.

Diagnosis and Case Conceptualization.

Time Orientation and Case Conceptualization.

Goals and Treatment Planning.

Strategy Selection.

Categories of Counseling Interventions.

Case Illustration of Strategy and Interventions Selection.

Defining a Counseling Strategy.

Strategies for Working with Children.



7. Affective Interventions.

Theories That Stress the Importance of Feelings.

Affective Interventions.

Helping Clients Express Affect.

Nonverbal Affect Cues.

Verbal Affect Cues.

Helping Clients Sort Out Feelings.

Focusing Techniques.

Case Illustration of Focusing.

Helping Clients Integrate or Change Feeling States.

Client Reactions to Affective Interventions.



8. Cognitive Interventions.

Theories That Stress the Importance of Cognitive Processes.

Goals of Cognitive Interventions.

Culture and Cognitive Processes.

Assessment and Cognitive Processes.

A-B-C-D Analysis.

Case Illustration of A-B-C-D Analysis.

Injunctions and Re-Decision Work.

Case Illustration of Injunctions and Re-Decision Work.

Cognitive Restructuring.

Paradoxical Interventions.

Cognitive Interventions with Spiritual Issues.

Client Reactions to Cognitive Strategies.



9. Behavioral Interventions.

Theories That Stress the Importance of Behavior.

Goals of Behavioral Interventions.

Basic Behavioral Skills.

Behavioral Interventions.

Social Modeling.

Modeling, Rehearsal, and Feedback: Components of Skill Training.

Case Illustration of Skill Training.

Anxiety Reduction.

Case Illustration of Anxiety Reduction.

Self-Management.

Case Illustration of Self-Management.

Client Reactions to Behavioral Interventions.



10. Systemic Interventions.

Theories That Stress the Importance of Systems.

Interpersonal Systems Thinking.

Altering Communication Patterns.

Communication Skill-Building.

Case Illustration of Distancer/Pursuer.

Altering Family Structure.

Case Illustration of Family Sculpture.

Working with Families Strategically.



11. Termination and Follow-up.

The Termination Stage.

Termination as a Process.

The Referral Process.

Coordinating the Transfer.

Blocks to Termination.

Case Illustration of Termination.



12. Applying Counseling Skills to Other Counselor Functions.

I. Crisis Counseling.

II. The Counselor as Consultant.

III. The Counselor as Peer Supervisor.



Appendix A: Integrative Practice Exercises.


Appendix B: Forms and Guides for Use in Counseling Practice.


References.


Index.

    This useful text helps counseling students and beginning counselors master the necessary skills, interventions, and strategies for conceptualizing the profession of counseling theoretically, planning therapy for change, and developing a means for self-assessment.

     

    The Sixth Edition continues to address the process of counseling from beginning to conclusion, teaching students to think and act like counselors, and also–equally important–encouraging them to develop the identity of a counselor.  A new chapter, The Language of Counseling, (Ch. 2) explores the art of communication in counseling, including both verbal and non-verbal skills.  The text maintains its basic structure, beginning with an overview of the stages of counseling and then looking at those stages individually–building a working relationship, assessing client problems, developing goals, defining strategies and selecting interventions, and terminating the relationship–and provides both case illustrations and specific strategies for each stage. Separate chapters examine affective, cognitive, behavioral, and systemic interventions. 

     

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    Hackney & Cormier
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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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