Professional Counseling: A Process Guide to Helping

"From reviews of the text: " "The Professional Counselor" is a very clearly written text that the first-semester Master of Counseling students can easily grasp the content. I also received similar feedback from the students . . . . [C]hapters are structured in a manner that provides concreteness and continuity within the content. Therefore, it is easy to follow and understand for entry-level students. The written language of the book is very clear. The content is supported by good examples that help with the comprehension . . . . [T]he interventions (affective, cognitive, behavioral, and systemic) chapters are very well described. Gulsah Kemer, University of Arizona State University [Key strengths are: ] The authors include the multicultural perspectives in many chapters. The structure and organization for each chapter are well planned. [And] the writing style is easy to understand for the readers. Yu-Fen Lin, University of North Texas Dallas The Professional Counselor . . . provides the beginning counselor the opportunity for a comprehensive overview of the process of counseling while further delivering specific interventions and approaches (i.e. fundamental counseling skills) . . . . While this is a text book with a focus on the counseling profession it doubly serves as a reference resource to providing an effective counseling program . . . . The key strengths of this text are the concise explanations of counseling concepts with practical clinical applications . . . . [M]any of my students comment on how helpful the text is in understanding the concepts of counseling . . . . This text is superior to others that I have used in that it explains practical applications of interventions and how to deliver those to the client. Oscar Sida, University of Nevada Las Vegas "