Counseling Strategies and Interventions

by Cormier, Sherry; Hackney, Harold L.

• ISBN13: 9780205521630
• ISBN10: 0205521630
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Summary

Counseling Strategies and Interventions, Seventh Edition,provides an accessible, practical introduction to the real world of counseling people in today's global society from an integrative perspective. This practical, highly readable text focuses on basic counseling skills within a multicultural context, providing students with the tools and strategies they need to become effective members of the counseling profession. Comprehensive but concise, it is rooted in contemporary issues and the diversity of real-world counseling throughout. The authors offer a unique focus both on the student's growth and development as a counselor, and on how the student can best use supervision in this developmental process.

Table of Contents

Exercises

Preface

The Helping Profession

What Is Helping?

Setting in Which Counselors Work

Ingredients of Professional Counseling

Training and Credentialing of Counselors

The Helping Relationship

Accurate Empathy

Positive Regard

Genuineness

Self-Disclosure

A Climate of Safety

Attending to Clients

Communication of Attentiveness

Facial Expressions

Eye Contact

Body Positions and Use of Space

Verbal Behavior and Selective Attention

Recognizing Communication Patterns

Ritualized Patterns of Communication

Interactive Communication Patterns

Silence

Managing the Counseling Session

The First Interview

Objectives of the First Interview

Cultural Variables and the First Interview

Counselor Responses That Encourage Client Expression

Counselor Responses That Solicit Information

Intake-Interview Content

Using Intake-Interview Information

Opening Subsequent Interviews

Terminating the Interview

Terminating the Counseling Relationship

Responding to Cognitive Content

Recognizing Alternatives

Responding to Alternatives

Verbal Responses to Cognitive Content

Differentiation and Selective Responding

Responding to Affective Content

The Importance of Responding to Affective Content

Verbal and Nonverbal Cues Associated with Emotions

Types of Affective Messages

Verbal Responses to Affective Contents

Differentiating between Cognitive and Affective Messages

Setting the Stage for Affect

Types of Differentiating Responses for Cognitive and Affective Content

Effects of Responding to Affective Contents

Effects of Responding to Cognitive Contents

The Differentiation Process in Cross-Cultural Counseling

Conceptualizing Problems and Setting Goals

The Client's World

The Role of the Counselor

Process and Outcome Goals

Culturally Appropriate Counseling Goals

Three Elements of Good Outcome Goals

Translating Vague Concerns into Specific Goals

Client Resistance to Goal Setting

Client Participation in Goal Setting

Using Counseling Strategies and Interventions

Working with Client Feelings

Working with Client Beliefs and Attitudes

Working with Client Behaviors

Working with Client Interactional Patterns and Relationships

Working with Client Social Systems

Receiving and Using Supervision, by Janine M. Bernard

The Parameters of Supervision

The Focus of Supervision

Styles of Supervision

Methods of Supervision

Avoiding Supervision

Putting Your Development as a Counselor in Perspective

Preparing for Supervision

Using Supervision

Appendix: Counseling Strategies Checklist

References

Index

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