Counseling and Psychotherapy Essentials: Integrating Theories, Skills, and Practices (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393704587)

In an age when actual psychotherapeutic practice is predominantly eclectic, most psychotherapy textbooks are outdated and impractically bound in theoretical pigeon holes. Counseling and Psychotherapy Essentials incorporates into a single source the latest advances in the field and focuses on psychotherapy's core processes--rather than ideologies--to provide a comprehensive and imminently pragmatic textbook for learning integrative counseling and psychotherapy.

The central lessons of this book are framed on one side by a theoretical overview in which essential therapeutic concepts and techniques are synthesized, and on the other side by a detailed review of frequently encountered concerns such as depression, anxiety, substance abuse, couple/marital issues, and psychopharmacology. From the general to the specific, Good and Beitman keep their discussion grounded in the core processes of psychotherapy--engagement, pattern search, change, and termination--that facilitate therapeutic change.

In Counseling and Psychotherapy Essentials, students have a textbook that seamlessly connects their classroom experience with their actual work with clients, preparing them to be effective clinicians.

Author: Bernard D. Beitman, Glenn E. Good
ISBN-10: 0393704580
ISBN-13: 9780393704587
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2006
Pages: 456
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.39lbs
Size: 10.24h x 7.88w x 1.01d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 03/01/2007 pg. 90