The Professional Counselor: A Process Guide to Helping (6th Edition)
The Professional Counselor: A Process Guide to Helping (6th Edition)
Presents essential skills for beginning counselors the stages of counseling, specific goals and interventions for each stage, and including chapters on affective, behavioral, cognitive and systemic interventions, and termination. Pre-service counselors
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3 Stars hackney
The book itself is great. Perfect condition. Chapters are short, so its nice to read.
Service was not so great, as it took over 2 weeks to get to me. I was very disappointed in the amount of time it took amazon to get it to me.
3 Stars Easy-to-read textbook detailnig the counseling process
Hackney & Cormier offer a simple stage presentation of counseling that explains the process to readers in a revealing way. Each stage is detailed, and various intervention genres are explored. At times, however the book does not flow well. The authors do not take enough time to show how each aspect of counseling ties together. Hackney & Cormier, however, are sensitive — almost to a fault — to multicultural issues.
4 Stars Great at process; tainted at points by political correctness
I’ve used this as a text for two years to teach the process of counseling at the undergraduate level. It’s quite good at setting forth an understandable five-step process of counseling. The taint of political correctness rears its ugly head at points when the authors tacitly presume the morality of homosexual unions–but these can instances can be bracketed off. Most in need of rework is chapter nine on behavioral interventions; undergraduates find it difficult to digest this as written.
5 Stars Very Helpful
I just begun my journey to become a therapist. The journey seems a bit overwhelming but this book has been helpful. The authors provide step by step guidance in how the counseling processes works and how it develops. I am sure that counseling does not enfold in such a systematic way but it is helpful to understand the steps. They cover things from the language of counseling and they also cover affective, cognitive, behavioral and systemic interventions. The book covers assessments and gives ideas on how to write them. This book has helped to ease the burdens of feeling totally inept to feeling only somewhat inept.
The book is a little dry and a little hard to hard. The chapters read quickly.
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