Developing Your Theoretical Orientation in Counseling and Psychotherapy

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About This Book

This guide is designed to assist helping professionals--those who work with diverse populations in a wide array of fields--in the process of finding a theoretical orientation congruent with their own personal values. In it, readers get a look at the theory and practices involved in the process; a reminder/overview of the major theories of counseling; and specific learning activities, reflection questions, and case examples throughout. Unique to this book are the authors' Intentional Theory Selection (ITS) model, a contemporary model for selecting a theoretical orientation congruent with one's personal values, and the Selective Theory Sorter-Revised (STS-R), a survey for discovering which research theories a counselor might endorse. Updated throughout, the Third Edition focuses on assisting clinicians further in finding their theoretical orientation in a diverse society…