Responsive Therapy: A Systematic Approach to Counseling Skills
Responsive Therapy: A Systematic Approach to Counseling Skills
Book Details
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing; 1 edition (September 10, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0618131191
ISBN-13: 978-0618131198.
Book Description
Responsive Therapy shows students how to develop the required skills and apply counseling theories while in the practicum element of their training for the helping professions. Students will study a combination of psychological and communication theories and viewpoints—focusing on the learning principles that underlie client change—and be guided on how to select from the range of theoretical models.
The general process approach employed in the text applies to all clients and promotes relationship building, client circumstance and style identification, and counselor-client collaboration in determining a focused and active intervention. Micro-skilled training is discussed through descriptions, examples, and exercises that help students learn the necessary skills for establishing an effective therapeutic alliance.
- The text provides a basis for an analytical approach befitting the emphasis on brief therapy, managed care, and DSM mediated service.
- Consultation is approached as a set of activities rather than a professional specialty or a refinement of counseling, training, or management.
- Summary sections at the end of each chapter review key points and main ideas.
