Counseling and Psychotherapy Essentials: Integrating Theories, Skills, and Practices

Glenn E. Good and Bernard D. Beitman

Praise for Counseling and Psychotherapy Essentials:

"[T]he authors bring distinctive and needed complementary perspectives and experiences. . . . The authors have distilled a tremendous amount of material and clinical literature germane to psychotherapy and counseling. . . . [W]hile avoiding jargon, they also manage to avoid facile reductionism."
—American Journal of Psychiatry

“Here is an introductory text that presents a truly integrative approach, close to the level of actual clinical practice . . . Good and Beitman go beyond schools of thought in order to present core principles, core processes, and a variety of methods for working with emotion, cognition, behavior, and interpersonal and systemic factors.”
—Leslie S. Greenberg, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Director of the Psychotherapy Research Clinic, York University, and author of Emotion-Focused Therapy

“This is an immensely practical book, which will be of help to experienced as well as aspiring psychotherapists and counselors . . . [it] covers all of the bases of a practical and integrative therapeutic approach.”
—Aaron T. Beck, M.D., University Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, and author of Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

Overview – Contents – Introduction – Chapter One

The essential textbook for learning integrative psychotherapy.

Actual psychotherapeutic practice is predominantly eclectic—clinicians mix schools and methods as they seek to address their clients’ needs. Yet psychotherapy textbooks are still stuck in clinical pigeonholes and are often more committed to a theoretical position than to helping students learn how to be effective in the therapy hour. Here students will find a textbook that brings their classroom experience into agreement with the demands of actual clinical practice.

About the Authors

Glenn E. Good is associate professor of education at the University of Missouri-Columbia and coeditor of The New Handbook of Psychotherapy and Counseling with Men.

Bernard D. Beitman is professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine. He is the coauthor of Integrating Psychotherapy and Pharmacotherapy.

ISBN 10: 0-393-70458-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-393-70458-7
October 2006 / 384 pages / Cloth