Gladding S. T. Counseling A Comprehensive Profession / Samuel T. Gladding. — Second Edition. — New York Toronto : Macmillan Publishing Company : Maxwell Macmillan Canada, 1992. — 650 p.
Анотація: Preface
Counseling is a dynamic, ever-evolving, and exciting profession that deals with human tragedy and possibility in an intensive, personal, and caring manner. It is a profession dedicated to prevention, exploration, remediation, change, empowerment, and development in an increasingly complex and sometimes chaotic world. The initial emphasis of counseling was on vocational guidance, but now the focus on career choice is but one spoke of the comprehensive umbrella that is the counseling profession.
Most texts for counseling students do not reflect the dynamic growth and scope of counseling. However, in this book, you will find a different perspective. The broad spectrum that is counseling—its history, theories, processes, issues, specialties, and trends—have all been incorporated in the pages that follow. There is a concentration on the personhood of the counselor, too, since counseling can never be effectively implemented in a cookbook fashion and the mental health of the counselor is vital to the overall outcome of the process. Specifically, this book is divided into two main parts. The first part is a 10-chapter overview that examines
о The history and development of counseling о Personal and professional qualities of effective counselors о Mainstream counseling theories—psychodynamic, affective, behavioral, and cognitive о The counseling process from initiation to termination о Ethical and legal issues in counseling
The second part of the book centers on counseling in specific settings with certain populations, assessment procedures, creativity, the use of tests, and current trends. The emphases in these 12 chapters include
о Consultation о Group counseling о School and college counseling о Rehabilitation and mental health counseling о Marriage and family counseling/therapy о Career counseling о Multicultural and cross-cultural counseling о The creative arts in counseling о Evaluation and research in counseling о The use of psychological tests о Current trends in counseling
A common theme in this work is that counseling is both generic and specialized. It is a profession that has come of age but is still growing. It is best represented by such professional organizations as the American Association for Counseling and Development (AACD)* and Division 17 (Counseling Psychology) of the American Psychological Association (АРА). There are also numerous other professional groups—social workers, psychiatric nurses, psychiatrists, and pastoral counselors—that utilize and practice counseling theories and techniques on a daily basis. In essence, no one profession “owns” the helping process, and there are both universal and unique aspects to each of the disciplines mentioned above.
This text is the result of a lifetime of development on the part of the author to understand both himself and the counseling profession. The journey that has been this process includes 20 years of clinical experience with a wide variety of clients and countless hours of research. It also incorporates the input from my mentors Thomas M. Elmore and Wesley D. Hood (Wake Forest University) and W. Larry Osborne (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) as well as significant colleagues: C. W. Yonce, Peg Carroll, Allen Wilcoxon, Jim Cotton, Robbin Mclnturff, Miriam Cosper, Charles Alexander, Michael Hammonds, and Thomas Sweeney. Then, of course, there have been graduate students who have contributed significantly in a direct and indirect manner to this endeavor, especially Shirley Ratliff, Jennifer Dorris, Marianne Dreyspring, Hank Paine, Don Norman, Reina Braisher, Tom McClure, and Paul Myers. ...