Ivey/Ivey/Zalaquett's ESSENTIALS OF INTENTIONAL COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY IN A MULTICULTURAL WORLD, 4th EDITION, is your guide to counseling and psychotherapy in a stressed world. This reader-friendly text focuses on what you need to know to begin your journey to become an effective counselor or psychotherapist in a diverse world in dire need of well-prepared professionals. This edition retains the authors' microskills model, which revolutionized modern understanding of the counseling and therapy process by teaching vital interviewing skills step-by-step. This process breaks down counseling into manageable micro units and builds a bridge between theoretical understanding, learning the skills, and the practice of counseling. This edition includes a chapter on crisis counseling and effective information on relevant issues such as the pandemic, social inequities and eco-anxiety. The book includes video content, session transcripts and brief summaries of key theories.
Preface.
Section I: OVERVIEW AND COMPETENCIES OF INTENTIONAL, CULTURALLY SENSITIVE, EMPATHIC LISTENING.
1. Foundations of Counseling and Psychotherapy.
2. Ethics, Social Justice, Advocacy, Strength focus, and Resilience.
3. Basic Listening Skills: Attending, Empathy, and Observing Client Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior.
Section II: THE BASIC LISTENING SEQUENCE AND ORGANIZING AN EFFECTIVE SESSION.
4. Questions: Opening Communication.
5. Encouraging, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing: Active Listening and Cognition.
6. Observing and Reflecting Feelings: The Heart of Empathic Understanding.
7. How to Conduct a Five-Stage Counseling Session Using Only Listening Skills.
Section III: HELPING CLIENTS GENERATE NEW STORIES THAT LEAD TO ACTION: INFLUENCING SKILLS AND STRATEGIES.
8. Focusing the Session: Exploring the Story From Multiple Perspectives.
9. Empathic Confrontation: Supporting While Addressing Client Conflict.
10. Reflection of Meaning and Interpretation/Reframing: Restorying Client Lives Through Meaning Making.
11. Empathic Self-Disclosure and Feedback: Relationship, Immediacy, and Genuineness.
12. Influencing Client Actions and Decisions: Directives, Psychoeducation, Logical Consequences, and Decisional Counseling.
SECTION IV: SKILL INTEGRATION, CRISIS COUNSELING, AND DEVELOPING YOUR OWN STYLE.
13. Crisis Counseling and Assessing Suicide Potential.
14. Determining Personal Style in a World of Multiple Theories.
Appendix A: The Ivey Taxonomy: Definitions of the Microskills Hierarchy and Anticipated Client Response From Using Skills.
Appendix B: The Family Genogram.
Appendix C: Counseling, Neuroscience, and Microskills.
Glossary.
References.
Name Index.
Subject Index.
