The Elements of Counseling, Eighth Edition

✍ Scribed by Scott T. Meier, Susan R. Davis

• Publisher: Waveland Press, Inc.
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 121
• Edition: 8
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Elements of Counseling distills the basic elements of counseling what it is and what it is not in a highly accessible outline format. Meier and Davis present essential information for both beginning and experienced counselors and include valuable counselor-client dialogues to demonstrate skill application in real-world scenarios. The latest edition is enhanced with updates on emotional avoidance, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, personalized interventions, progress monitoring and outcome assessment, and Barlow's Unified Protocol. Simple, clear, and practical, this popular primer establishes a conceptual framework on which students of all helping professions can establish and build their counseling knowledge.

Title of related interest available from Waveland Press: Martin, Counseling and Therapy Skills, Fourth Edition (ISBN 9781478628750).

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Contents
Preface
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Setting the Stage: Counseling Process
1 MAKE PERSONAL CONTACT
2 DEVELOP A WORKING ALLIANCE
3 EXPLAIN COUNSELING TO THE CLIENT
4 PACE AND LEAD THE CLIENT
5 SPEAK BRIEFLY
6 WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT TO SAY, SAY NOTHING
7 YOU MAY CONFRONT AS MUCH AS YOU’VE SUPPORTED
8 IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE SOMETHING, PROCESS IT
9 INDIVIDUALIZE YOUR COUNSELING
10 NOTICE RESISTANCE AND AVOIDANCE
11 WHEN IN DOUBT, FOCUS ON FEELINGS
12 PLAN FOR TERMINATION AT THE BEGINNING OF COUNSELING
13 ARRANGE THE PHYSICAL SETTING APPROPRIATELY
Summary and Discussion Questions
Chapter 2: Strategies to Assist Clients in Self-Exploration
14 AVOID ADVICE
15 AVOID PREMATURE PROBLEM SOLVING
16 AVOID RELYING ON QUESTIONS
17 LISTEN CLOSELY TO WHAT CLIENTS SAY
18 PAY ATTENTION TO NONVERBALS
19 FOCUS ON THE CLIENT
20 BE CONCRETE
21 UTILIZE METAPHORS
22 SUMMARIZE
Summary and Discussion Questions
Chapter 3: A Few Mistaken Assumptions
23 AGREEMENT DOES NOT EQUAL EMPATHY
24 DO NOT ASSUME THAT CHANGE IS SIMPLE
25 POSITIVE THINKING DOES NOT EQUAL RATIONAL THINKING
26 MAKE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENTS, NOT MORAL JUDGMENTS
27 DO NOT ASSUME THAT YOU KNOW CLIENTS’ FEELINGS, THOUGHTS, AND BEHAVIORS
28 DO NOT ASSUME THAT YOU KNOW HOW CLIENTS REACT TO THEIR FEELINGS, THOUGHTS, AND BEHAVIORS
Summary and Discussion Questions
Chapter 4: Important Topics
29 DEVELOP CRISIS INTERVENTION SKILLS
30 BECOME CULTURALLY COMPETENT
31 BE OPEN TO GROUP AND FAMILY APPROACHES
32 LEARN ABOUT GRIEF, LOSS, AND TRAUMA
33 REFER CAREFULLY
34 WATCH FOR TREATMENT FAILURE IN CLIENTS
35 ESTABLISH AN INTEREST IN COUNSELING RESEARCH
36 DOCUMENT YOUR WORK
37 PERSEVERE WITH CLIENTS WHO NO-SHOW
38 LEARN HOW TO CONCEPTUALIZE CLIENTS
39 LEARN ABOUT MANAGED CARE
40 DEVELOP TECHNOLOGY SKILLS
Summary and Discussion Questions
Chapter 5: Counselor, Know Thyself
41 BECOME AWARE OF AND ADDRESS YOUR PERSONAL ISSUES
42 BE OPEN TO SUPERVISION
43 DON’T HIDE BEHIND TESTING
44 ON ETHICAL QUESTIONS, CONSULT
Summary and Discussion Questions
Chapter 6: A Brief Introduction to Intervention
45 BASIC COUNSELING TEXTS
46 PERSON-CENTERED COUNSELING
47 BEHAVIORAL COUNSELING
48 COGNITIVE, COGNITIVE/BEHAVIORAL COUNSELING, AND SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY
49 GESTALT COUNSELING
50 PSYCHOANALYTIC AND PSYCHODYNAMIC COUNSELING
51 EXISTENTIAL COUNSELING
52 GROUP COUNSELING
53 FAMILY/SYSTEMS COUNSELING
54 MULTICULTURAL COUNSELING
55 FEMINIST THERAPY
56 BRIEF THERAPY AND SOLUTION FOCUSED THERAPY
57 INTEGRATIVE APPROACHES
58 NARRATIVE THERAPY
59 ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY
60 MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING
61 NEW AND EMERGING APPROACHES
62 RESEARCH ON COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
63 OTHER IMPORTANT SOURCES
References
Index