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Professional Counseling: A Process Guide to Helping, 8th edition

Published by Pearson (January 4, 2016) © 2017

  • Harold L. Hackney Syracuse University
  • Janine M. Bernard Syracuse University

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  • A wealth of case studies and examples in every chapter. See pages 86-87, 89, 91-92, and 112-113 for some examples.
  • Concrete, detailed guidelines on how to perform core counseling tasks. See pages 79-80, 88, and 103 for examples.
  • Nuanced treatment of culture throughout the text. There are separate sections that deal with culture. See pages 7-8, 23, and 108-109 for some examples of these. But the discussion of culture is also simply part of the narrative. For example, to see how culture is infused throughout the interventions chapters see the text sectionsVisual Affect Cues (p. 136) and Client Reactions to Affective Interventions (p. 152) in Chapter 8.
  • Working with children sections in all of the counseling process chapters. See pages 71-72, 81-83, and 107-108 for some examples.
  • Forms and guides that can be used in counseling practice. A series of forms and guides that illustrate the management of counseling cases are included in Appendix B.

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This title is also available with MyCounselingLab–an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with the text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students see key concepts demonstrated through video clips, practice what they learn, test their understanding, and receive feedback to guide their learning and ensure they master key learning outcomes. MyCounselingLab resources include:

  • Video- and Case-Based Exercises. Video- and Case-based Exercises introduce students to a broader range of clients, and therefore a broader range of presenting problems, than they will encounter in their own pre-professional clinical experiences. Students watch videos of actual client-therapist sessions or high-quality role-play scenarios featuring expert counselors. They are then guided in their analysis of the videos through a series of short-answer questions. These exercises help students develop the techniques and decision-making skills they need to be effective counselors before they are in a critical situation with a real client.
  • Licensure Quizzes. Automatically graded, multiple-choice Licensure Quizzes help students prepare for their certification examinations, master foundational course content, and improve their performance in the course.
  • A Video Library. The Video Library provides more than 400 video clips of actual client-therapist sessions and high-quality role plays in a database organized by topic and searchable by keyword. The Video Library includes every video clip from the MyCounselingLab courses plus additional videos from Pearson’s extensive library of footage. Instructors can create additional assignments around the videos or use them for in-class activities. Students can expand their observation experiences to include other course areas and increase the amount of time they spend watching expert counselors in action.
  • MyCounselingLab includes an eText version of the book, which integrates MyCounselingLab. See pages 97 and 115 for examples.

  • Addition of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Motivational Interviewing. A new section has been added to each intervention chapter concerning how interventions are used in Dialectical Behavior Therapy and, where appropriate, Motivational Interviewing. See pages 152-155 for an example.
  • Expansion of the coverage of culture to include the addition of what might be considered “lesser” cultural identities—like urban culture and military culture—but that can often play significant roles in the development of clients’ problems. For example, see Counseling and Culture (pp. 7-8).
  • Addition of new video examples. More than 40 new end-of-chapter web-based video samples that illustrate skills and procedures discussed in each chapter are presented at the end of each chapter. See pages 97 and 115 for examples.
  • New sections on evaluating your own counseling. See pages 254-255 for an example.
  • Content of the new edition is mapped to the 2016 CACREP Standards. See the chart that coincides with the new (2016) CACREP standards on the inside front cover of the book.

Also available with MyCounselingLab®

This title is also available with MyCounselingLab–an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with the text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students see key concepts demonstrated through video clips, practice what they learn, test their understanding, and receive feedback to guide their learning and ensure they master key learning outcomes. MyCounselingLab resources include:

  • Video- and Case-Based Exercises. Video- and Case-based Exercises introduce students to a broader range of clients, and therefore a broader range of presenting problems, than they will encounter in their own pre-professional clinical experiences. Students watch videos of actual client-therapist sessions or high-quality role-play scenarios featuring expert counselors. They are then guided in their analysis of the videos through a series of short-answer questions. These exercises help students develop the techniques and decision-making skills they need to be effective counselors before they are in a critical situation with a real client.
  • Licensure Quizzes. Automatically graded, multiple-choice Licensure Quizzes help students prepare for their certification examinations, master foundational course content, and improve their performance in the course.
  • A Video Library. The Video Library provides more than 400 video clips of actual client-therapist sessions and high-quality role plays in a database organized by topic and searchable by keyword. The Video Library includes every video clip from the MyCounselingLab courses plus additional videos from Pearson’s extensive library of footage. Instructors can create additional assignments around the videos or use them for in-class activities. Students can expand their observation experiences to include other course areas and increase the amount of time they spend watching expert counselors in action.
  • MyCounselingLab includes an eText version of the book, which integrates MyCounselingLab. See pages 97 and 115 for examples.

Chapter 1

Conceptualizing Professional Counseling

Chapter 2

The Language of Counseling

Chapter 3

The Essential Structure of Counseling

Chapter 4

Initiating and Maintaining a Working Relationship

Chapter 5

Assessing Client Problems

Chapter 6

Developing Counseling Goals

Chapter 7

Defining Strategies and Selecting Interventions

Chapter 8

Affective Interventions

Chapter 9

Cognitive Interventions

Chapter 10

Behavioral Interventions

Chapter 11

Systemic Interventions

Chapter 12

Termination and Evaluation

Appendix A

Integrative Practice Exercises

Appendix B

Forms and Guides for Use in Counseling Practice

Harold (Dick) Hackney, Professor Emeritus of counseling and counselor education at Syracuse University, is a nationally certified counselor and a Fellow of the American Counseling Association. Dick is past-president of the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision and former member of the ACA Governing Council He is also a past-president of the Center for Credentialing and Education, an affiliate of NBCC. Prior to his appointment at Syracuse University, Hackney was a professor at Purdue University and at Fairfield University. In addition to eight editions of the current text, Dick has co-authored (with Sherry Cormier) eight editions of Counseling Strategies and Interventions. He also edited the text Practice Issues for the Beginning Counselor.

Janine M. Bernard, Professor Emeritus of counseling and counselor education at Syracuse University, is a nationally certified counselor, an approved clinical supervisor, and a licensed mental health counselor in New York. Bernard is a Fellow of the American Counseling Association and a long-term member of Division 17 of the American Psychological Association. She is a past-chair of the National Board for Certified Counselors. Prior to her appointment as department chair at Syracuse University, Bernard held faculty appointments at Purdue University and at Fairfield University. In addition to co-authoring this edition of Professional Counseling, Janine has co-authored (with Rod Goodyear) five editions of Fundamentals of Clinical Supervision.

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