Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy: Systems, Strategies, and Skills (Merrill Counseling) - Hardcover

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Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy: Systems, Strategies, and Skills offers an innovative look at emerging and well-established counseling theories. Organizing theories into four broad themes (Background, Emotions, Thoughts, and Actions), authors underscore key similarities and differences in each approach. Moving beyond a traditional theories book, chapters include skill development sections that connect counseling theories with clinical practice. Fully revised, this edition brings a stronger multicultural focus, includes over 400 new research references, and offers new activities to sharpen clinical understanding.

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Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy: Systems, Strategies, and Skills offers an innovative look at emerging and well-established counseling theories. Organizing theories into four broad themes (Background, Emotions, Thoughts, and Actions), authors underscore key similarities and differences in each approach. Moving beyond a traditional theories book, chapters include skill development sections that connect counseling theories with clinical practice. Fully revised, this edition brings a stronger multicultural focus, includes over 400 new research references, and offers new activities to sharpen clinical understanding.

• Expanded research coverage includes over 400 new references that validate each treatment approach in the text.
• More information on cognitive and cognitive-behavioral treatments appears in Chapters 12-16.  
• New information on psychodynamic psychotherapy, experiential therapies, and interpersonal psychotherapy appears in Chapters 2, 5, 6, 18, and 19.
• More on the common factors approach appears in Chapter 1 and Chapter 19.
• A stronger multicultural focus covers Hayes's ADDRESSING acronym and revises multicultural sections in each theoretical chapter.
• Consolidated coverage of solution-focused therapy appears within Chapter 11 on constructivist theories.
• A reorganized integrative therapy chapter (Chapter 19) expands discussion of Wachtel's cyclical psychodynamics and the transtheoretical model of change.
• Expanded treatment of spiritually-integrated approaches appears in this edition.