Adlerian Counseling and Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Approach

by Thomas J. Sweeney

Adlerian Counseling and Psychotherapy, now in its fifth edition, remains a classic text for students and an essential resource for practitioner's of all levels of experience. Reviewers have consistently lauded the book in previous editions for its clarity, concise focus, and use of many practical applications. It explains and illustrates individual, group, and couples work with children, adolescents, and adults of all ages. It highlights Adler's and Dreikurs's unique contributions to child guidance, lifestyle assessment and early recollections, and why it has been rated the most multicultural appropriate theory among counseling approaches.

The fifth edition presents a fresh organization and an even clearer structure. A new emphasis is placed on the distinction between counseling and psychotherapy, as practiced from the Adlerian perspective. Additional chapter activities and review questions are added throughout the text, and all previous material is updated and refreshed.

Genres: Psychology, Counselling

432 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1998

About the author

Dr. Tom Sweeney is Professor Emeritus of Counselor Education in the College of Education at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

Reviews

[Degan Walters · Rating 2 out of 5]

Had to buy it for a class but we only needed one chapter from it, so I was predisposed to not like it but I also found it both too general and too specific, as well as too cultish. Perhaps it would be of use to those specializing in Adlerian.

[Ashley · Rating 4 out of 5]

I needed to understand the basics first in my theories class. This dives deeper into what the theory is although sometimes unclear and wordy.