Introduction to Therapeutic Counseling: Voices from the Field - Hardcover

Kottler Ph.D., Jeffrey A.; Brown, Robert W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0534358780 ISBN 13: 9780534358785

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 1980

Synopsis

This text meets the stringent demands of traditional scholarship and also provides a lively and dynamic overview of therapeutic counseling that speaks directly to students. The authors emphasize the development of a professional identity, ethical standards, basic process skills, the therapeutic relationship, personal theory building, and understanding meaningful research. The book offers a contemporary focus on the practical realities of counseling in schools; clinics; and medical, industrial, mental health, and community agency settings.

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Review:

"I think Kottler has the market on the essence of what a true therapeutic relationship is! I appreciate how he challenges the reader to look at self, and how the self can be the instrument of change for the client."

Synopsis:

In a textbook emphasizing the personal warmth needed for the practice and also the problems encountered rather than abstract knowledge, Kottler (Texas Tech U.) and Brown (late, Oakland U.) examine the development of a professional identity, ethical standards for practice, basic process skills, the

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0534358780
• ISBN 13: 9780534358785
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 496