Böcker av Elsie Jones-Smith

Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy: An Integrative Approach by Elsie Jones-Smith is for the theories of counseling and psychotherapy course at both the undergraduate and graduate level. This Third Edition, offers an extensive array of theories that includes all the mainstream theories as well as such contemporary approaches as narrative, feminist, LGBT, and post-modern . It offers students an integrative framework with which to assess the various theories with respect to possible clinical application. In addition to listing and describing theories, this Third Edition takes it a step further by comparing and contrasting them, showing strengths and weaknesses, in a way to help students to apply them flexibly. Students will be challenged to understand what it is about their own personalities that will lead them to accept or reject various theoretical perspectives.

This book adopts a unique strengths-based approach in teaching students to focus on the positive attributes of individual clients and incorporate those strengths, along with other essential cultural considerations, into their diagnosis and treatment.

Using cutting-edge research, this text lays a theoretical foundation to help students and practitioners understand the grounding and theory behind strengths-based therapy and then presents a model for use with a variety of client types/settings.

This book explains how a teaching system focused on identifying and stoking each student's strengths-rather than concentrating on deficits-can bring remarkable academic improvement and achievement. It's a familiar and seemingly logical model: to improve performance, identify weaknesses and target these problem areas.

This book empowers parents, educators, and counselors to prevent youth violence by teaching the thinking skills necessary for children and teens to deal with anger and frustration in healthy, productive ways.