This motivating and lively book explores the "why" and "what" of helping to illuminate the art and values of psychotherapy. Welch speaks directly to practicing helpers (and helpers-in-training with compassion and humor. While he does not focus on any specific therapeutic model, the framework is humanistic with an emphasis on the therapist/client relationship.The book, based on the author's years of counseling experience, presents material in way that pre-publication reviewers have described as "mind-expanding," "priceless," and "compelling."

Path of Psychotherapy: Matters of the Heart

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Welch, Ira David

Psychology & Counseling

Wadsworth Pub. Co.

This comprehensive overview grounded in the theory and research of the counseling process explores the "how" of counseling, offering readers in-depth coverage of the varied skills they will need to form effective therapeutic relationships with those who come to them for assistance. Speaking directly to helpers-in-training with compassion and humor, Ira David Welch and David Gonzalez cover virtually everything beginning counselors need to know before meeting their first clients. The authors provide both the attitudinal conditions that are important for effective counseling and psychotherapy, as well as the concrete, step-by-step procedures that developing counselors need to master. Ideal for stand-alone use or in conjunction with The Path of Psychotherapy: Matters of the Heart, Welch's companion volume, this is one book you won't want your students to miss.

The Process of Counseling and Psychotherapy: Matters of Skill

Gonzalez, David M.

Brooks/Cole

Discipline: A shared experience

Discipline: A Shared Experience

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Hart Pub. Co.

Encountering Death

First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Parenting & Relationships

Routledge

Thorns Have Roses

Self-Help

Motivational

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