Counseling Textbooks

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• Mozdzierzet al: Principles of Counseling and Psychotherapy

  While the past two decades have seen considerable research on the processes and efficacy of psychotherapy and counseling, the preparation of new therapists (students) has lagged far behind the advances in understanding what actually works and why. Practitioners-in-training continue to be shown what to do and are educated in a way that asks them to mimic what they read and see - to act like the master therapists and experienced practitioners they see, rather than how to think like a master therapist.
• Guindon: A Counseling Primer: An Introduction to the Profession

  This introductory, professional orientation text is intended for use by beginning counseling students and can serve as a review for students at internship stage and those in early practice. It covers Standard One, Professional Identity, one of the eight core areas of the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) curriculum. Guindon has structured the text around the series of "W" questions - Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How. In so doing, the text quickly orients readers to who counselors (and clients) are, what counseling actually is, where and when it is practiced, and why counselors choose the profession. The text also presents very basic attending and communicating skills (the 'how' of counseling) that will form the foundation of the rest of the coursework and training for the beginning counselor.
• Kapitan: Introduction to Art Therapy Research

  • Teacher: George Zimmar
  • Teacher: Marta Moldvai
  • Teacher: Fred Coppersmith
  • Teacher: Lynn Kapitan
  • Teacher: Donna Betts

  

  Art therapy is a relatively young field that is growing rapidly. There are an estimated 10,000 art therapists in the U.S., with over 40 accredited graduate programs in art therapy. This text speaks to those students, filling in a much-needed gap in a field that requires all students to enroll in at least one graduate-level research course. This is a pragmatic text that is grounded in art therapy research literature and surrounding contexts, providing guidance to students and practitioners in research design via a broad survey of appropriate questions, methods, and ethical values. A central metaphor—that of the "hunt"—is threaded throughout the text to spark the artistic imagination of art therapists and to help them access the scientific logic of research design.
• Fall et al: Theoretical Models of Counseling and Psychotherapy

  • Teacher: Jan Holden
  • Teacher: Mario De La Garza
  • Teacher: Dana Bliss
  • Teacher: Kevin Fall
  • Teacher: Andre Marquis
  • Teacher: Jacklyn Chitwood

  

  Theoretical Models of Counseling and Psychotherapy presents a comprehensive overview of a variety of major counseling theories. Written for both student and practitioner, this text gives the reader an easily accessible venue through which to explore the deeper layers of each theory, and provides a bridge from classroom study to practice. Chapters blend current literature with primary source material and includes illustrative case examples, which help the reader more readily apply theory to practice. This book is unique in its attention to the philosophical underpinnings of each theory, it also includes theory-specific information on diagnosis, psychopharmacology, multicultural issues, spirituality, and gender issues. Focusing on the integration between theoretical models, this text provides a deeper and more complete understanding of counseling theory than is available in any other single resource.
• Wilmshurst: Abnormal Child Psychology

  • Teacher: Fred Coppersmith
  • Teacher: George Zimmar
  • Teacher: Susan Long
  • Teacher: Linda Wilmshurst
  • Teacher: Jacklyn Chitwood
  • Teacher: Murray Maybery

  

  Abnormal Child Psychology: A Developmental Perspective is intended for undergraduate and Masters-level students enrolled in courses in Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology.
  

  Written from a developmental perspective, the book is organized around five prominent and recurring themes:

  • the course of normal development proceeds in an orderly and predictable direction;
  • maladaptive behaviors represent deviations from the normal path;
  • maladaptive behavior is represented by a continuum of severity (symptoms, syndromes, disorders) based on the degree to which behaviors deviate from the norm;
  • individual, interpersonal, contextual and cultural factors interact in a reciprocal way to influence normal development and abnormal deviations;
  • theoretical input from diverse perspectives can guide our understanding of underlying processes that precipitate and maintain behaviors and the different developmental pathways that might result.