Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy: An Integrative Approach

by Elsie Jones-Smith

A step forward from the traditional textbook on counseling theories, Theories of Counseling and An Integrative Approach offers students a comprehensive overview of past and current approaches to psychotherapy and counseling, with a modern approach to theories of psychotherapy. An extensive array of mainstream theories, as well as contemporary approaches such as narrative, feminist, LGBT, and post-modern, are covered. Author Elsie Jones-Smith helps readers to construct their integrated approach to psychotherapy by learning how to develop a broad range of therapeutic expertise to meet the needs of a culturally diverse clientele. In addition to listing and describing theories, this text compares and contrasts them to show their strengths and weaknesses. The Third Edition includes a new chapter on trauma-informed counseling/psychotherapy and provides updated references, sections, and studies reflecting the latest developments within the helping professions. Included with this The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides. <

Genres: Psychology, School, Textbooks, Counselling

712 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 1, 2011

Reviews

[Luke Heberle · Rating 2 out of 5]

A fairly poor introduction to counseling theory. I felt that the explanations of theory were repetitive and lacking in insight. At times, I even found statements that revealed that the author fundamentally misinterpreted some theories, for instance, she equates functional competence in strengths based theory with the good enough mother in object relations theory. She also presumptuously credits herself as the founder of strengths based theory. To her credit, the descriptions and histories of theories aren’t completely inaccurate, only they are convoluted and not concise. Despite the authors credentials, I do not find this to be a credible academic text.

[Carolina Leal · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book to better understand different psychotherapeutic approaches

[Ashley Van Vonderen · Rating 5 out of 5]

The author lays the bare theories out there for introductory courses. The text does what it aims to do, with clear and readable text.