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Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Covenants and Care
A team of experts in ministry and the Bible, offer skills for the long haul. They employ the Old Testament notion of covenant and ask ministers to enter a covenant both for their own self-care and as a key to framing and enlivening their care for others in ministry. True-to-life stories show how biblically based covenantal relationships with clear boundaries promote healthy relationships, and are integral to faithful personal and pastoral care.
Emerging Voices
While a growing number of popular and scholarly works focus on Asian Americans, most are devoted to the experiences of larger groups such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Indian Americans. As the field grows, there is a pressing need to understand the smaller and more recent immigrant communities. Emerging Voices fills this gap with its unique and compelling discussion of underrepresented groups, including Burmese, Indonesian, Mong, Hmong, Nepalese, Romani, Tibetan, and Thai Americans. Unlike the earlier and larger groups of Asian immigrants to America, many of whom made the choice to emigrate to seek better economic opportunities, many of the groups discussed in this volume fled ...
Case Studies in Counseling Older Adults
In Case Studies in Counseling Older Adults Larry Golden addresses a growing trend--older adults presenting for counseling--and the techniques that may be used to help treat them. Golden has selected cases studies that highlight many common issues faced by older adults today, such as loss of a spouse, health, financial means, depression, and spirituality. The organization of the cases provides the reader with a sense of the contributors' environment, the clients' contextual issues (i.e family, economics, health), the clients' presenting problems, and the therapeutic strategies implemented. This book is a valuable resource to counselors who are seeking to enhance their expertise with innovative approaches to counseling older adults.
Introduction to the Counseling Profession
An introductory text featuring a focus on the personal dynamics of a counselor and presentation of material not often addressed to beginning students. Coverage includes counseling from a rehabilitative perspective, brief therapies, client diagnosis and assessment based on DSM-IV, mental health counseling, and counseling special populations. Designed for students taking a preliminary course and considering entering the counseling profession. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Family Therapy
The fourth edition of Family Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice& is a comprehensive and developmental textbook. It covers all aspects of working with families. It begins by helping students understand the differences between functional and dysfunctional families. It then explains basic processes involved in treating couples and families before it delves into a dozen theoretical ways of treating families.& This text covers the history of family therapy, multicultural aspects of family therapy, ways of working with various types of families, ethical and legal issues in involved in family therapy, and ways of assessing families. This is the most thorough and well written text in the field.
Case Studies in School Counseling
Case Studies in School Counseling brings the work of the school counselor alive both for seasoned practitioners and graduate students. The authors have selected case studies for this book that provide a wide sampling, as well as including developmental cases that address the needs of whole grade levels of students. The organization of the cases provides the reader with a sense of the contributors' environment, the intent of the activity or intervention, and a sequential process for implementing the activity. This book is a valuable resource to school counselors who are seeking to enhance their program expertise with innovative approaches to facilitate student growth and development.
Counseling Ethics and Decision Making
This book guides helping professionals, using the theme of decision-making as an anchor for the discussion of ethics in professional practice. Providing a thorough presentation of ethical principles and standards, the authors conscientiously examine ethical issues as they manifest themselves within several specialty areas (couple and family, school, mental health, career, group, rehab, additions, etc.) and use compelling case studies to illustrate the connection between ethical decision-making models and ethical practice. This revision includes additional coverage of multicultural issues, references the new 2005 American Counseling Association (ACA) Code of Ethics, and includes the highly-praised compendium of ethical codes.
Appraisal Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals
The leading book in appraisal for counselors, this book is designed to help current and future workers in the helping professions become better consumers of psychological and educational tests and assessment procedures. Provides guidance on how and when to use tests in different environments with different populations. Provides practical suggestions on basic procedures such as test selection, administration, and reporting. Addresses the role of the computer in assessment including on-line testing, adaptive testing, computerized interpretation of test results, and websites as sources of information. An ideal book for assessment in counseling, psychological testing, and tests and measurement.
