Introduction to Therapeutic Counseling Voices from the Field

This text meets the stringent demands of traditional scholarship and also provides a lively and dynamic overview of therapeutic counseling that speaks directly to students. The authors emphasize the development of a professional identity, ethical standards, basic process skills, the therapeutic relationship, personal theory building, and understanding meaningful research. The book offers a contemporary focus on the practical realities of counseling in schools; clinics; and medical, industrial, mental health, and community agency settings.

Jeffrey A. Kottler is visiting professor of counseling at Texas Tech University and adjunct professor at Heritage College in Washington and Hawaii Robert W. Brown was an associate professor and chair of the Department of Counseling at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Bob Died in 1995