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Professional Counselor, The: A Process Guide to Helping, 6/E
Harold L. Hackney, Syracuse University
Sherry Cormier, West Virginia University

ISBN-10: 0205608329
ISBN-13: 9780205608324

Publisher: Merrill
Copyright: 2009
Format: Cloth; 416 pp
Published: 03/18/2008

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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. 

 

    • Provides a context for counseling (Ch. 1) focusing on the intimacy of the counseling relationship, conditions that facilitate positive relationships, and characteristics of successful counselors.
    • Introduces a consistent five-step model used by NCE (establishing the relationship; understanding the problem, setting goals, structuring sessions, ending successfully) that provides a 'roadmap' for planning interventions and assessing progress and emphasizes the evolving nature of the process.
    • Includes frequent Case Illustrations, tying content to authentic counseling situations.
    • Uses Case Illustrations to allow students to evaluate outcomes using four different theoretical approaches (Chs. 8, 9, 10, 11).
    • Integrates guidance on working with children and working with diverse populations throughout, reflecting how these issues occur in authentic counseling contexts.
    • Separate chapters on client assessment and treatment planning (Chs. 5 and 7) encourage novice counselors to plan treatment that will meet managed care criteria–a growing concern in the counseling profession.
    • Includes exercises  in each chapter designed to provide opportunities for students to engage in the process and understand the role of counselor.
    • Appendix A offers extensive case-based application exercises emphasizing the integrated nature of actual counseling.  Appendix B includesa practical array of forms and guides for managing counseling cases.

 

  • An all-new chapter (Ch. 2) on the Language of Counseling emphasizes the verbal and non-verbal skills that are critical to successful counseling, and explores how and when those skills can be used effectively.

  • A significantly rewritten first chapter–Conceptualizing Counseling–provides a structure for the remainder of the book by examining the context of counseling and how context changes across cultures–and as society changes–and by identifying helper qualities that are universal across culture and time.

  • Additional Case Illustrations (Chs. 8 and 9) provide students with an enhanced view into actual counseling interventions.

All chapters conclude with Summary, Exercises, Discussion Questions, and Additional Resources.

Preface.

1.         Conceptualizing Counseling

What Is Counseling?

The Parameters of Counseling.

*Counseling and Theory

Counseling Conditions and Their Effects.

Case Illustration of Possible Counseling Outcomes.

Characteristics of Effective Helpers.

The Developmental Nature of Learning to Counsel.



**2.     The Language of Counseling

Communication in Counseling

Non-verbal Skills of Counseling

Basic Verbal Skills of Counseling

Advanced Verbal Skills of Counseling

Wrapping It Up

 

3.                  Stages and Skills of Counseling.

The Counseling Process

The Client’s Experience in Counseling

Dependence and Growth

 

4.         Building a Working 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.

Case Illustration of Relationship Building

Children and the Counseling Relationship.



5.         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.

Case Illustration of the Intake Interview.

Integration of Problem-Definition Information with Treatment Planning.



6.         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.

Crises and Goal-Setting

Goal-Setting and Multicultural Issues.

Existential and Spiritual Goal-Setting.

Client Participation in Goal-Setting.

Resistance to Goal-Setting.

Case Illustration of Goal-Setting.



7.         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.



8.         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.

Case Illustration of Role Reversal

Case Illustration of the Alter Ego

Case Illustration of the Empty Chair

Client Reactions to Affective Interventions.



9.         Cognitive Interventions.

Theories That Stress the Importance of Cognitive Processes.

Goals of Cognitive Interventions.

Culture and Cognitive Processes.

Assessment of Cognitive Processes.

Cognitive Intervention Strategies

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.

Case Illustration of Paradoxical Restrain

Cognitive Interventions with Spiritual Issues.

Client Reactions to Cognitive Strategies.



10.       Behavioral Interventions.

Theories That Stress the Importance of Behavior.

Goals of Behavioral Interventions.

Basic Behavioral Skills.

Behavioral Interventions.

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

Case Illustration of Skill Training.

Case Illustration of Anxiety Reduction.

Self-Management.

Case Illustration of Self-Management.

Client Reactions to Behavioral Interventions.



11.       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.

Selecting Interventions



12.       Termination and Follow-up.

The Termination Stage.

Termination as a Process.

The Referral Process.

Blocks to Termination.

Case Illustration of Termination.


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

References.
Index.

    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.

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