Case approach to counseling and psychotherapy ebook

Well-respected and widely recognized practitioners serve as guest commentators, offering their unique perspectives on Ruth's case. Commentators include founders of some of the therapies, such as William Glasser for choice theory and reality therapy, Arnold Lazarus for multimodal therapy, and Albert Ellis for rational emotive behavior therapy.

With this articulate guide to counseling theory, students will grasp complicated historical theory and not only understand the historical footing and uses of each, but will learn how these theories have informed each other and contributed to modern practice, while applying it to their own professional counseling experience. Examining the historical roots, evaluations, and lasting effects of Existential, Gestalt, Behavior, Cognitive, Reality, Feminist, Family, Narrative, and Solution-Focused Therapy and much more, this text equips students with the history and application necessary to bring theory to life.

Note: this is the standalone book. Concrete guidelines and updated case material are provided for developing conceptualizations for the five most common therapy models: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy CBT , Psychodynamic, Biopsychosocial, Adlerian, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. The chapters also include specific exercises and activities for mastering case conceptualization and related competencies and skills.

Also new to this edition is a chapter on couple and family case conceptualizations, and an emphasis throughout on trauma. Practitioners, as well as graduate students in counseling and in clinical psychology, will gain the essential skills and knowledge they need to master case conceptualizations. This textbook contains sufficient coverage to explain all of the most important elements of these core approaches and sufficient depth to provide a detailed analysis of the ten main therapies: Person-Centred Therapy, Psychoanalytic Therapy, Behaviour Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Transactional Analysis, Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy, Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy, Multimodal Therapy and Neurolinguistic Programming.

The book focuses on the development of each approach and presents the associated therapy in its historical and psychological context, giving a deeper insight into the theories and clarifying the overlap between different therapies. Presented in a unique style, with a clear layout, rigorous content and extensive resources available online, Core Approaches in Counselling and Psychotherapy is an invaluable asset for undergraduate and postgraduate students at all levels of study and is the ideal textbook for any degree or higher-level module in counselling.

Corey introduces students to the major theories psychoanalytic, Adlerian, existential, person-centered, Gestalt, reality, behavior, cognitive-behavior, family systems, feminist, postmodern, and integrative approaches and demonstrates how each theory can be applied to two cases Stan and Gwen. With his trademark style, he shows students how to apply those theories in practice, and helps them learn to integrate the theories into an individualized counseling style.

It is well arranged, with many examples and case vignettes, which bring the material to life in an engaging way. I enjoyed reading it, and would recommend it unreservedly. Additional text features and benefits include: Engages readers with a unique integrated case approach. This is the first and only counseling theories text that begins each chapter with a case study. Each case is integrated and elaborated upon throughout the chapter, and each chapter features a different case.

Provides a concrete, practical context to relate theory to practice. Students will be able to understand and envision how each theory's view of human nature and its view of therapy apply to actual clients. Presents outcome research in detail.

Each chapter contains a thorough discussion of the outcome research and the theory-testing research that has been done on the theory. Examines gender and cultural issues. Each theory is evaluated relative to gender and cultural issues. Theories are also examined from the perspective of sexual orientation.

Focuses on Solution Focused Therapy with an entire chapter. This theoretical perspective is having a wider and wider influence on the practice of therapy today. Murdoch's is one of very few books to offer a full separate chapter on SFT.

Accessibly and engagingly presents theories without sacrificing rigor. The book presents in enough depth so that students can truly understand each theory.

For each theory students will learn the underlying assumptions, approaches to counseling, and a balanced evaluation from the perspective of current research and diversity. Case studies are integrated throughout and the author employs a writing style that is extremely engaging. The major goals for this revision were to add new theoretical material, thoroughly update the research and other commentary relevant to the theoretical approaches, and to prepare new content for MyCounselingLab with Pearson eText.

UPDATED : Substantially revised coverage of psychotherapy outcome research and added discussions of comparative studies using treatment as usual groups, the latest conclusions about the relative efficacy of theoretical approaches, and perspectives on evidence-based practice.

NEW : Over new sources across all chapters. New to This Edition. Over new sources across all chapters. Table of Contents Brief Table of Contents 1.

Individual Psychology 5. Person-Centered Therapy 6. Existential Therapy 7. Gestalt Therapy 8. Behavior Therapy 9. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Cognitive Therapy Reality Therapy Feminist Therapy Family Systems Theory Solution-Focused Therapy Narrative Therapy Share a link to All Resources.

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