Professional Counselor, The: A Process Guide to Helping

by Hackney, Harold L.; Cormier, Sherry

• ISBN13: 9780205329342
• ISBN10: 0205329349
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780205191925, 9780205410651
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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Summary

This text presents the counseling skills, interventions, and stages of counseling for the beginning counselor and the counseling student who is entering the experiential phase of training. In this Fourth Edition, the authors have maintained the basic organization of the text, beginning with an overview of the stages of counseling, specific goals and interventions for each stage, chapters on affective, behavioral, cognitive and systemic interventions, and termination. The text provides a conceptual structure for viewing the counseling process and then examines each part of that structure in-depth, addressing necessary counseling skills.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
The Context of Counseling	1	(22)
What is Counseling?	2	(1)
The Parameters of Counseling	3	(7)
Counseling Conditions and Their Effects	10	(3)
Case Illustration of Possible Counseling Outcomes	13	(1)
Characteristics of Effective Helpers	13	(6)
The Developmental Nature of Learning to Counsel	19	(1)
Summary	20	(1)
Exercises	20	(1)
Discussion Questions	21	(1)
Recommended Readings	21	(2)
Stages and Skills of Counseling	23	(20)
Stages of Counseling	24	(10)
The Client's Experience in Counseling	34	(6)
Summary	40	(1)
Exercise	41	(1)
Discussion Questions	42	(1)
Recommended Readings	42	(1)
Rapport and Relationship	43	(31)
Characteristics of the Real Relationship	44	(5)
Communicating Empathy	49	(9)
Condition That Convey Genuineness	58	(4)
Conditions That Convey Positive Regard	62	(2)
Function of a Therapeutic Relationship	64	(1)
Effects of Therapeutic Relationships on Clients	65	(1)
The Relationship Stage	66	(1)
Children and the Counselling Relationship	67	(1)
Summary	68	(1)
Exercises	68	(3)
Feedback for Exercises	71	(1)
Discussion Questions	72	(1)
Recommended Readings	73	(1)
Assessing Client Problems	74	(23)
Purposes of Assessment	75	(1)
Components of Assessment	76	(5)
Clinical Assessment with Children	81	(2)
Clinical Assessment with Couples and Families	83	(1)
Using Assessment Information	84	(1)
Skills Associated with Assessment	85	(2)
Effects of Assessment on Clients	87	(1)
The Intake Interview	88	(5)
Integration of Problem-Definition Information with Treatment Planning	93	(1)
Summary	93	(1)
Exercises	93	(2)
Feedback for Exercises	95	(1)
Discussion Questions	95	(1)
Recommended Readings	96	(1)
Developing Counseling Goals	97	(21)
Functions of Counseling Goals	98	(1)
Parameters of Goal-Setting: Process and Outcome Goals	99	(1)
Three Elements of Good Outcome Goals	100	(1)
Obstacles in Developing Specific Goals	101	(2)
Skills Associated with Goal-Setting	103	(3)
Effects of Goal-Setting on Clients	106	(1)
Goal-Setting with Children	107	(1)
Goal-Setting and Multicultural Issues	107	(1)
Existential and Spiritual Goal-Setting	108	(1)
Client Participation in Goal-Setting	109	(1)
Resistance to Goal-Setting	110	(2)
Case Illustration of Goal-Setting	112	(3)
Summary	115	(1)
Exercises	115	(1)
Feedback for Exercises	116	(1)
Discussion Questions	116	(1)
Recommended Readings	117	(1)
Defining Strategies and Selecting Interventions	118	(21)
Theory and the Working Alliance	119	(1)
Worldview and the Working Alliance	120	(2)
Presenting Problems and the Working Alliance	122	(2)
Time and the Working Alliance	124	(1)
Identified Goals and the Treatment Plan	125	(1)
Strategy Selection	126	(1)
Categories of Counseling Interventions	127	(2)
Case Illustration of Strategy and Interventions Selection	129	(2)
Defining a Counseling Strategy	131	(2)
Strategies for Working with Children	133	(1)
Summary	134	(1)
Exercises	134	(3)
Feedback for Exercises	137	(1)
Discussion Questions	137	(1)
Recommended Readings	138	(1)
Affective Interventions	139	(32)
Theories That Stress the Importance of Feelings	140	(1)
Affective Interventions	141	(1)
Helping Clients Express Affect	142	(1)
Nonverbal Affect Cues	143	(1)
Verbal Affect Cues	144	(6)
Helping Clients Sort Out Feelings	150	(3)
Focusing Techniques	153	(1)
Case Illustrations of Focusing	154	(2)
Helping Clients Integrate or Change Feeling States	156	(11)
Body Work Therapy	167	(1)
Client Reactions to Affective Interventions	167	(1)
Summary	168	(1)
Exercises	168	(1)
Discussion Questions	169	(1)
Recommended Readings	170	(1)
Cognitive Interventions	171	(29)
Theories That Stress the Importance of Cognitive Processes	172	(1)
Goals of Cognitive Intervention	173	(1)
Culture and Cognitive Processes	173	(1)
Assessment of Cognitive Problems	173	(1)
A-B-C-D Analysis	174	(3)
Case Illustration of A-B-C-D Analysis	177	(6)
Injunction and Redecision Work	183	(1)
Case Illustration of Injunctions and Redecision Work	184	(1)
Cognitive Restructuring	185	(3)
Differences Between REBT and Cognitive Restructuring	188	(1)
Paradoxical Interventions	188	(3)
Cognitive Interventions with Spiritual Issues	191	(2)
Client Reactions to Cognitive Strategies	193	(2)
Summary	195	(1)
Exercises	196	(2)
Feedback for Exercises	198	(1)
Discussion Questions	199	(1)
Recommended Readings	199	(1)
Behavioral Interventions	200	(42)
Theories That Stress the Importance of Behavior	201	(2)
Goals of Behavioral Interventions	203	(1)
Social Modeling	204	(9)
Modeling, Rehearsal, and Feedback: Components of Skill Training	213	(2)
Case Illustration of Skill Training	215	(1)
Operant Conditioning Interventions	216	(1)
Anxiety Reduction Methods	216	(8)
Case Illustration of Anxiety Reduction	224	(2)
Eye-Movement Desensitization	226	(1)
Self-Management	226	(9)
Case Illustration of Self-Management	235	(2)
Client Reactions to Behavioral Interventions	237	(1)
Summary	238	(1)
Exercises	239	(2)
Discussion Questions	241	(1)
Recommended Readings	241	(1)
Systemic Interventions	242	(27)
Theories That Stress the Importance of Systems	243	(2)
Interpersonal Systems Thinking	245	(1)
Altering Communication Patterns	246	(1)
Communication Skill-Building	247	(2)
Case Illustration of Distancer/Pursuer	249	(5)
Altering Family Structure	254	(4)
Case Illustration of Family Sculpture	258	(5)
Working with Families Strategically	263	(3)
Summary	266	(1)
Exercises	267	(1)
Discussion Questions	267	(1)
Recommended Readings	268	(1)
Termination and Follow-Up	269	(18)
The Termination Stage	270	(4)
Termination as a Process	274	(2)
The Referral Process	276	(2)
Coordinating the Transfer	278	(1)
Blocks to Termination	279	(2)
Case Illustration of Termination: The Case of Alex	281	(4)
Summary	285	(1)
Exercises	285	(1)
Discussion Questions	286	(1)
Recommended Readings	286	(1)
Counseling Clients in Crisis	287	(22)
The Nature of Crisis	288	(1)
Models of Crisis Intervention	289	(1)
Stages of Crisis Intervention	290	(2)
Counselor Interventions in Crisis Counseling Stages	292	(4)
Crisis Intervention Cases in Context	296	(9)
Summary	305	(2)
Discussion Questions	307	(1)
Recommended Readings	307	(2)
Appendix A: Integrative Practice Exercises	309	(10)
Appendix B: Forms and Guides for Use in Counseling Practice	319	(22)
References	341	(14)
Index	355