This highly regarded compilation of therapy excerpts addresses the practical difficulties and issues involved in talking to clients in distress. The authors include contributions from faculty trainers and advanced therapists-in-training who share the insights, perspectives, and challenges they have faced in a way easily understood by fellow students. Readers will enjoy the conversational, collegial, and direct writing style offered in Basics of Clinical Practice as they study the models of various methods of meeting therapeutic challenges. Tables are offered throughout chapters to summarize pertinent material.