Counseling Techniques Improving Relationships with Others, Ourselves, Our Families, and Our Environment

Revised edition of the author's Counseling techniques, 2003.

The third edition of Counseling Techniques follows in its predecessors’ steps, presenting the art and science of counseling in a clear and common-sense manner that makes it accessible for counseling students and seasoned practitioners alike. New to this edition are chapters on play therapy and a host of other updates that illustrate ways to use different techniques in different situations. Counseling Techniques stresses the need to recognize and treat the client within the context of culture, ethnicity, interpersonal resources, and systemic support, and it shows students how to meet these needs using more than five hundred treatment techniques, each of which is accompanied by step-by-step procedures and evaluation methods.

1. Professionalism in Counseling and Psychotherapy 2. Client-Therapist Relationships: Counseling Intentions, Interventions, and Therapeutic Factors 3. Eclectic Techniques for Group Therapy 4. Classic Gestalt Techniques 5. Therapeutic Expressive Techniques: Art Therapy, Dance/Movement Therapy, Phototherapy, Drama Therapy, and Music Therapy 6. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Solution Focused Counseling 7. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and Reality Therapy 8. Classic Behavioral Techniques 9. Person-Centered Techniques and Psychoeducational Counseling Approaches 10. Improving Relationships with Our Environments: Conflict Resolution and Stress Management Techniques 11. Trauma, Loss, Grief, and Post-Traumatic Stress Debriefing Strategies 12. Psychodynamic Techniques 13. Eclectic Techniques for Use with Family Systems and Family Development 14. Play Therapy Techniques for Children and Adolescents

Rosemary A. Thompson, EdD, LPC, NCC, NCSC, has over 25 years of experience in public schools as a school counselor and administrator working with children, adolescents, and families. She taught concurrently in the department of counseling and human services at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and was an associate professor in the school of psychology and counseling at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She is currently in private practice with Phoenix Mental Health Services, LLC, in Virginia Beach.