Counseling and Therapy Skills

by David G. Martin

Significantly updated, the latest edition of Counseling and Therapy Skills continues to be a tremendous text-and-DVD value for beginning and practicing therapists to develop a full range of essential skills. Unlike highly technical works, the emphasis here is on presenting material the reader can actually use and translate into behavior. A second emphasis is the three-pronged message that therapy demands active involvement, empathy must be evocative, and the therapist must work at the leading edge of the client's experiencing, thereby empowering the client to become the problem solver. Award-winning educator and practitioner Dr. David Martin handles nuance and complexity with seasoned skill. His real-life examples cover beginning sessions, settings for therapy, ethics, various formats for therapy, cultural competence, and therapists' self-care. No-nonsense, clearly written analyses of theoretical approaches, including ways to reconcile "specific factors" and "common factors," provide a solid foundation for understanding the effectiveness of evocative empathy and how it can be used with other therapeutic practices. The text is packaged with Observing Therapy, a DVD showing excerpts of the author conducting actual therapy sessions. This provocative learning tool demonstrates evocative empathy and can be used to practice responses to clients. Titles of related interest from Waveland Cavanagh-Levitov, The Counseling A Theoretical and Practical Approach, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577661894); Kerr, Becoming a A Workbook for Personal Exploration (ISBN 9781577661313); Levitov-Fall, Translating Theory Into A Student Guide to Counseling Practicum and Internship (ISBN 9781577665601); Meier-Davis, The Elements of Counseling, Eighth Edition (ISBN 9781478638506); and Todd-Bohart, Foundations of Clinical and Counseling Psychology, Fourth Edition (ISBN 9781577664109).

Genres: Psychology, Counselling, Textbooks, School, Nonfiction, Grad School

374 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

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Reviews

[Analie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is not your usual dry textbook! I am so glad my professor assigned Counseling and Therapy Skills. I highlighted many insights about the therapeutic process and how to be most effective in helping clients problem-solve. I especially liked Dr. Martin's description of how creating a safe, empathetic space for clients to share their feared thoughts and feelings "takes the curse off" of them. I highly recommend this text.

[Dani · Rating 4 out of 5]

evocative empathy. iykyk. as the other review of this text says: not your usual textbook. casual tone and great professional advice. really enjoyed reading this one for my class and definitely recommend it to any of my fellow clinicians

[Cortney · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another good practical book for counselors about therapy...more so for students than graduates unless they have issues with empathy:)

[Angella · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm using this book as a textbook for my master's program in Counseling Psychology. It's a great guide for techniques in therapy--very hands on.

[Kristina Bartholomew · Rating 2 out of 5]

Book was extremely boring so I stopped reading it for a while. Very dense. Hard to comprehend at times even as a therapist.