Author Description

This engaging, easy-to-read book provides an overview of counseling and the helping professions from the perspective of counseling as an art and science. Addressing multicultural and diversity issues throughout, it discusses the counseling process and professional issues, provides in-depth information on formulating a personal approach to counseling within a multicultural perspective, and incorporates cutting-edge trends in counseling such as brief counseling, managed care, post modernism, and spirituality. Personal notes and clinical examples illustrate concepts and convey a sense of immediacy. Part I provides an overview of counseling and the counseling process, including assessment, diagnosis, research, and evaluation. Part II covers developing a personal approach to counseling from a multicultural perspective, and includes presentations of classic, experiential, and cognitive-behavioral theories. Part III presents special counseling skills such as marriage and family, child and adolescent, group and career; and counseling in mental health and school settings. For individuals in the helping professions, those whose work or volunteer activities require counseling skills, and others who want an overview of counseling.