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.