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Counseling Strategies and Interventions, 7/e

By Sherry Cormier and Harold Hackney

Counseling Strategies and Interventions, Seventh Edition, provides an accessible, practical introduction to the real world of counseling people in today's global society from an integrative perspective.

This practical, highly readable text focuses on basic counseling skills within a multicultural context, providing students with the tools and strategies they need to become effective members of the counseling profession. Comprehensive but concise, it is rooted in contemporary issues and the diversity of real-world counseling throughout. The authors offer a unique focus both on the student's growth and development as a counselor, and on how the student can best use supervision in this developmental process.

Features of this book include:

• Each chapter offers a variety of examples, vignettes, and client cases designed to model and illustrate the chapter's key concepts and skills and root them in the real world.
• Practical exercises and discussion questions interspersed throughout the text provide students with opportunities to practice and apply the skills and strategies presented in each chapter.
• Material on diversity and multicultural counseling offers students an authentic window into specialties in counseling; trends in counseling including spirituality, cultural competence, and relational and cultural empathy; cultural and gender factors; and working with different client social systems.
• Attention to specific skills like listening and understanding silence (Chs. 3 and 4)and session management (Ch. 5) provide practical strategies for prospective counselors
• An extensive discussion of credentialing and licensing of counselors (Ch. 1) gives students real-world perspectives.