Overview
"No one knows more about theory-based counseling than Gerald Corey, who has spent the past 50+ years helping us to gain real insight into multiple models. In this book, Corey takes readers from forming a working alliance with clientsthrough the processes for setting and achieving goals. His skill at and understanding of the termination processes is worth the entire book. Not only will The Art of Integrative Counseling be the core text for counseling process and skills courses, it will provide the foundation for effective, truly integrated counseling throughout one’s career."—James Robert Bitter, EdD, East Tennessee State University
"Gerald Corey's fourth edition of The Art of Integrative Counseling provides important concepts to consider when developing an integrative approach to working with clients. For beginning counselors, it demonstrates how one can be integrative whether one is behaviorally, cognitively, or affectively oriented. For more advanced counselors, it reminds them of the wealth of information that all theories offer and how techniques or theories can be synthesized into a more effective approach. Whether you are a new counselor trying to figure out how to integrate the many theories you learned about, or a seasoned professional seeking new ways of working with clients, this book has something for you."—Edward Neukrug, EdD, Old Dominion University*Requests for digital versions from ACA can be found on www.wiley.com.
*To purchase print copies, please visit the ACA website*Reproduction requests for material from books published by ACA should be directed to permissions@counseling.org
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781119535294 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 08/08/2018 |
Sold by: | JOHN WILEY & SONS |
Format: | eBook |
File size: | 459 KB |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Preface | xv | |
Chapter 1 | Beginning of Counseling | 1 |
An Integrative Theoretical Approach: An Overview | 2 | |
Put Yourself in the Shoes of the Client | 4 | |
The Initial Counseling Session | 4 | |
Informed Consent | 5 | |
Assessment | 6 | |
Therapy Is a Time-Limited Process | 7 | |
Introduction to the Case of Ruth | 7 | |
Drawing on Theories as Applied to the Case of Ruth | 9 | |
Concluding Comments | 14 | |
Chapter 2 | The Therapeutic Relationship | 15 |
Developing a Working Relationship | 15 | |
Becoming the Client: Sharing in a Collaborative Partnership | 18 | |
Therapy as a Collaborative Venture | 18 | |
The Relationship During the Early Stage of Counseling | 18 | |
Your Role as a Counselor in Creating a Working Relationship | 20 | |
Establishing the Relationship | 21 | |
Helping Clients Gain a Focus | 22 | |
My Integrative Approach With Ruth | 22 | |
The Relationship as the Cornerstone of Therapy | 22 | |
Our Second Session | 23 | |
Listening to Ruth's Story | 23 | |
Helping Ruth Externalize Her Problem | 24 | |
Concluding Comments | 25 | |
Chapter 3 | Establishing Therapeutic Goals | 27 |
Becoming the Client: Establishing Counseling Goals | 28 | |
Various Types of Therapeutic Goals | 30 | |
Goal-Directed Behavior and Goal Setting | 32 | |
Clarifying Counseling Goals With Ruth | 33 | |
Concluding Comments | 35 | |
Chapter 4 | Understanding and Dealing With Diversity | 36 |
Multicultural Concerns | 36 | |
Various Perspectives on Diversity | 37 | |
Theories Applied to Diversity Perspectives | 39 | |
Adlerian Contribution to Diversity | 39 | |
Existential Contribution to Diversity | 40 | |
Gestalt Therapy's Contribution to Diversity | 40 | |
Reality Therapy's Contribution to Diversity | 40 | |
Cognitive Behavioral Contribution to Diversity | 41 | |
Feminist Contribution to Diversity | 41 | |
Recognizing the Spiritual Domain | 41 | |
Assessing Your Own Spirituality | 42 | |
Acknowledging Clients' Spirituality | 43 | |
The Place of Spirituality in Assessment and Treatment | 43 | |
Understanding Ruth From a Diversity Perspective | 44 | |
Concluding Comments | 46 | |
Chapter 5 | Understanding and Dealing With Resistance | 47 |
Becoming the Client: Experiencing Resistance in Yourself | 48 | |
Understanding Ruth's Resistance | 53 | |
Borrowing From a Psychoanalytic View | 55 | |
Drawing on Other Approaches | 55 | |
Guidelines for Dealing With Resistance in Clients | 56 | |
Concluding Comments | 58 | |
Chapter 6 | Cognitive Focus in Counseling | 59 |
The Benefits and Limitations of a Cognitive Focus | 59 | |
Becoming the Client: Experiencing Cognitive Behavioral Techniques | 61 | |
Paying Attention to Your Thinking | 61 | |
Doing Homework Assignments | 61 | |
Drawing on Adlerian Concepts | 62 | |
Working With Ruth From a Cognitive Perspective | 63 | |
Concluding Comments | 68 | |
Chapter 7 | Emotive Focus in Counseling | 69 |
The Benefits and Limitations of an Emotive Focus | 69 | |
Becoming the Client: Experiencing Emotionally Focused Therapy | 70 | |
Working With an Emotive Focus | 73 | |
Working With Ruth in Identifying and Exploring Feelings | 75 | |
Concluding Comments | 77 | |
Chapter 8 | Behavioral Focus in Counseling | 79 |
Benefits and Limitations of a Behavioral Focus | 80 | |
Understanding the Seven Modalities of Human Functioning | 81 | |
Becoming the Client: Experiencing Behaviorally Oriented Therapy | 82 | |
Developing a Behavioral Contract | 85 | |
Behavioral Focus With Ruth | 86 | |
Concluding Comments | 88 | |
Chapter 9 | An Integrative Perspective | 89 |
Searching for Common Denominators Across Therapy Schools | 90 | |
The Benefits and Limitations of Integration | 91 | |
Drawing on Techniques From Various Theoretical Models | 91 | |
The Foundation of My Integrative Approach | 92 | |
Existential Therapy as a Philosophical Base | 93 | |
Gestalt Therapy: A Holistic Perspective | 94 | |
Psychodrama: An Integrative Approach | 94 | |
Drawing on the Action-Oriented Therapies | 95 | |
Behavior Therapy | 96 | |
Multimodal Therapy | 96 | |
Cognitive Behavior Therapy | 97 | |
Reality Therapy | 97 | |
Adlerian Therapy | 98 | |
Feminist and Systemic Therapies | 99 | |
Working With Ruth in Cognitive, Emotive, and Behavioral Ways | 100 | |
Concluding Comments | 102 | |
Chapter 10 | Working With Transference and Countertransference | 103 |
Contrasting Views of Transference | 103 | |
The Connection Between Transference and Countertransference | 105 | |
Working With Transference Therapeutically | 105 | |
Dealing With Countertransference Issues | 108 | |
Self-Disclosure in the Therapeutic Relationship | 109 | |
Working With Transference and Countertransference With Ruth | 111 | |
Concluding Comments | 113 | |
Chapter 11 | Understanding How the Past Influences the Present | 115 |
Working With Ruth's Past, Present, and Future | 116 | |
Dealing With the Past in an Integrative Style | 117 | |
Dealing With the Present in an Integrative Style | 119 | |
Dealing With the Future in an Integrative Style | 119 | |
Becoming the Client: Examining Your Past, Present, and Future | 121 | |
Reflecting on the Influence of Your Past on Your Present | 121 | |
How Future Aspirations Influence the Present | 121 | |
Concluding Comments | 122 | |
Chapter 12 | Working Toward Decisions and Behavior Change | 124 |
Understanding Redecision Therapy | 124 | |
Injunctions and Early Decisions | 125 | |
Understanding the Influence of Your Family | 127 | |
Applying Redecision Therapy to Behavior Changes | 127 | |
Becoming the Client: Experiencing the Redecision Process | 128 | |
Working Toward Redecisions With Ruth | 130 | |
Concluding Comments | 133 | |
Chapter 13 | Evaluation and Termination | 134 |
Becoming the Client: Taking Credit for Your Changes | 136 | |
Evaluating Ruth's Therapy Experience | 137 | |
Concluding Comments | 140 | |
A Final Word--And a Request | 142 | |
References and Suggested Readings | 143 |