Relationships in counseling--and the counselor's life /

In this engaging book, Jeffrey Kottler and Richard Balkin address common misconceptions about what works in counseling and offer suggestions for building constructive counseling relationships and facilitating positive counseling outcomes. Key aspects of the client-counselor relationship are supporte...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kottler, Jeffrey A. (Author), Balkin, Richard S. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Alexandria, VA : American Counseling Association, [2017]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • What do we know, or think we know, about how counseling works?
  • What counselors believe matters most : and why their clients disagree
  • Models of counseling relationships
  • Skills and strategies for promoting therapeutic relationships
  • Customized relationships : differences within and between individuals, families, groups, and cultures
  • Relational strategies and interventions for trauma
  • Exchanging stories to solidify and fortify counseling relationships
  • Innovative, creatie, and practical strategies for enhancing relational effects
  • Boundaries and barriers within counseling relationships
  • Processing disappointments and failures
  • Conflicts and struggles in a counselor's personal relationships
  • A way of being in all relationships.