Name: The Heart of Counseling
Price: 94.99 USD
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ISBN: 9781032862323

The Heart of Counseling, 4th Edition presents therapeutic relationships as the underlying basis for client healing and positive change. Intended both for introductory counseling students and experienced practitioners seeking skill renewal, this textbook concentrates on core relational skills.

The content outlines key stages in clinical practice. It details processes for client conceptualization and session structuring, alongside procedures for managing client crises and navigating the conclusion of therapeutic relationships. The text also explains how these essential relationship skills connect to major counseling theories.

To support active learning, the fourth edition provides recorded lectures by the primary author. This addition allows instructors to shift direct instruction outside of class and use course sessions for experiential learning.

Chapter 1: Twelve Concepts: Roots that Ground and Grow with the Heart of Counseling
Chapter 2: The Rich and Subtle Skills of Therapeutic Listening
Chapter 3: Striving for Empathy
Chapter 4: Expressing Empathy
Chapter 5: Striving for and Communicating Unconditional Positive Regard
Chapter 6: The Delicate Balance of Providing Empathy and UPR in a Genuine Manner
Chapter 7: Beginning with New Clients and Questions of Client Conceptualization
Chapter 8: Structuring Therapeutic Relationships
Chapter 9: When Clients Need Help Getting Started
Chapter 10: Managing Client Crises with Therapeutic Relationship Skills
Chapter 11: Ending Therapeutic Relationships
Chapter 12: Therapeutic Relationships Across Cultures
Chapter 13: Connecting Heart to Hand: Doing More, Going Beyond, Staying True
Chapter 14: Heart and Mind: Therapeutic Relationships and Major Counseling Theories
Chapter 15: Bringing Heart to All You Do
Chapter 16: Growing Your Therapeutic Relationship Skills to Become Who You Are