Counseling Strategies and Interventions

by Sherry Cormier, Harold L. Hackney

Emphasizing the importance of interpersonal skills to counseling, this textbook contains ten chapters on topics such as recognizing communication patterns, managing the counseling session, responding to cognitive content, responding to affective content, conceptualizing issues and setting goals, interactive counseling strategies, and common challenges. The authors are affiliated with West Virginia University and Syracuse University. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Genres: Psychology, Counselling, Grad School, School

240 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1987

About the author

L. Sherilyn Cormier

Reviews

[K · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reeducation book #3. Not as good as "Skills and Strategies...," although it is simpler to read and more accessible. There is some information here that wasn't really covered in "Skills and Strategies," or not in the same way, but mostly they overlap and "Skills and Strategies" goes into a lot more detail, most of which is actually useful. I guess I would say that "Skills and Strategies" analyzes what the therapist should do in a session on a micro level, whereas "Counseling Strategies is more macro and superficial. Additionally, the copy I'm reading is a very old edition and somewhat dated (one of the disadvantages of trying to do this in Israel). Maybe subsequent editions are better; I have no way of knowing.