Counseling Theories will help students and professionals “find their theories” and enable them to become congruent in theory and practice. This volume addresses specific applications with young populations and emphasizes the application of concepts to group and classroom settings. Leading experts in the field collaborate with practicing school counselors to contribute to each chapter. They address individual, group, and classroom applications as well as how to work with parents and teachers and how to adapt applications to multicultural environments. Each chapter concludes with a discussion of two case studies, one with a child and the other with an adolescent, to illustrate how to address the same problems from multiple theoretical perspectives.

FEATURES

• Overview and major constructs of each theory as they apply specifically to children and adolescents in school settings
• Practical Applications: individual, group, and classroom guidance applications and interventions; strategies for working with parents and teachers & multicultural applications
• Case studies: each theory is applied to the same two case studies to illustrate how to address the same problems from multiple theoretical perspectives

CONTENTS

1. Practical Person-Centered Theory Application in the Schools
2. Partners in the Schools: Adlerian School Counseling
3. Multimodal Child Counseling in School Settings
4. Brief Counseling: Problem-Solving and Solution-Focused
5. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
6. Perceptual Control Theory and School Counseling

240 pages/2009
0802/paperback/ISBN 978-0-89108-335-1
$42.00

Multicultural Practice and Evaluation addresses the growing imperative for multicultural awareness in the helping professions. This book provides innovative strategies to assimilate practice theories to diverse family structures from a variety of cultural backgrounds. The text emphasizes evidence-based practices and provides counseling dialogues for role-play, evaluation methods, and topics for discussion. It highlights applicable techniques in each chapter, using a standardized case throughout, to provide therapeutic demonstrations of how theories are put into action. By applying multiple theories to a single practice example, the text facilitates a holistic practice–evaluation perspective. By varying the racial background and family structure of the case example, the practice–evaluation approach will give students the tools necessary to assess the efficacy of an approach tailored for each specific family structure.

Special Features

• Application of clinical practice techniques with active client–worker dialogues
• Analysis of techniques applied in multicultural counseling settings
• Step-by-step illustration of evaluative measurements and methods in practice

Contents

Part One THE PRACTICE-EVALUATION FRAMEWORK
Chapter 1: Working with Multicultural Families
Chapter 2: The Case Approach: Purpose and Process
Chapter 3: Practitioners as Practice Evaluators
Part Two PRACTICES WITH CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS
Chapter 4: Psychodynamic Theory
Chapter 5: Adlerian Theory
Chapter 6: Family Systems Theory
Chapter 7: Structural Theory
Chapter 8: Client-Centered Theory
Chapter 9: Gestalt Theory
Chapter 10: Strategic Theory
Chapter 11: Behavioral Theory
Chapter 12: Cognitive–Behavioral Theory
Chapter 13: Feminist/Empowerment Theory
Chapter 14: Solution-Focused Approach
Part Three MULTICULTURAL COMPETENCY
Chapter 15: Developing Multicultural Competency

432 pages
2008/paperback/ISBN 978-0-89108-333-7
$68.00