Counseling: A Comprehensive Profession, 8th edition

Published by Pearson (September 18, 2020) © 2018

  • Samuel T. Gladding Wake Forest University

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Table of contents

Brief Table of Contents

PART I: PROFESSIONAL FOUNDATIONS OF COUNSELING 
1: Personal and Professional Aspects of Counseling
2: Ethical and Legal Aspects of Counseling
3: Counseling in a Multicultural Society
4: Counseling with Diverse Populations

PART II: COUNSELING PROCESSES AND THEORIES
5: Building Counseling Relationships
6: Working in and Closing a Counseling Relationship
7: Psychoanalytic, Adlerian, and Humanistic Theories of Counseling
8: Behavioral, Cognitive, Systemic, Brief, and Crisis Theories of Counseling

PART III: CORE COUNSELING ACTIVITIES IN VARIOUS SETTINGS
9: Groups in Counseling
10: Consultation and Supervision
11: Evaluation and Research
12: Testing, Assessment, and Diagnosis in Counseling

PART IV: COUNSELING SPECIALTIES 
13: Career Counseling over the Life Span
14: Couple and Family Counseling
15: Professional School Counseling
16: College Counseling and Student-Life Services
17: Abuse, Addiction, Disability, and Counseling
18: Clinical Mental Health and Private Practice Counseling

Epilogue
APPENDIX A: HISTORY OF AND TRENDS IN COUNSELING 
APPENDIX B: SUMMARY TABLE OF MAJOR COUNSELING THEORIES
APPENDIX C: COUNSELING-RELATED ORGANIZATIONS 
References
Name Index
Subject Index

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