The Counseling Process

This concise introduction to the counseling process elaborates a three-stage model of counseling, including disclosure, exploration, and action planning, and describes the counselor skills, attitudes, and knowledge essential to therapeutic change. The text assumes an integrated theoretical position, introducing ideas from a variety of theoretical perspectives and explaining how each might contribute to the counselors work. Full chapters cover: working with children, crisis intervention, gender and multicultural factors, and professional ethics.