Gladding Samuel T. Counseling: A Comprehensive Profession

8th edition. — Pearson Education, 2018. — 556 p. — (Merrill Counseling Series). — ISBN 9780134460604.Long respected as the most comprehensive guide to the counseling profession available, Samuel Gladding's text continues to emphasize counseling as a profession and counseling as an identity, while focusing on the roles and responsibilities of the professional counselor. Designed to ensure students get a head start in preparing for the professional challenges they will face in their futures as effective counselors, the book includes the latest research from counseling journals and other professional resources to show clearly the challenges of the profession that lie ahead. The new edition of the text contains an even stronger emphasis on counseling as a profession and counseling as an identity, along with new or expanded sections on wellness, trauma, social justice, theories, process, multiculturalism, diversity, rehabilitation, motivational interviewing, bullying, microaggression, international counseling, addiction, abuse, and ethical and legal issues within the counseling profession. This text is even more equipped to help students prepare for professional challenges and a lifetime as an effective counselor than ever before.Professional Foundations of Counseling
Personal and Professional Aspects of Counseling
Ethical and Legal Aspects of Counseling
Counseling in a Multicultural Society
Counseling with Diverse Populations
Counseling Processes and Theories
Building Counseling Relationships
Working in and Closing a Counseling Relationship
Psychoanalytic, Adlerian, and Humanistic Theories of Counseling
Behavioral, Cognitive, Systemic, Brief, and Crisis Theories of Counseling
Core Counseling Activities in Various Settings
Groups in Counseling
Consultation and Supervision
Evaluation and Research
Testing, Assessment, and Diagnosis in Counseling
Counseling Specialties
Career Counseling over the Life Span
Couple and Family Counseling
Professional School Counseling
College Counseling and Student-Life Services
Abuse, Addiction, Disability, and Counseling
Clinical Mental Health and Private Practice Counseling
Epilogue