Basic Counseling Techniques: A Beginning Therapist's Toolkit

by C. Wayne Perry

Book Overview

?Yes, but what do I do with that client?' That is a question Dr. Wayne Perry often hears as he works with beginning counselors or therapists. It is the question Basic Counseling Techniques seeks to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403383278
• ISBN13: 9781403383273
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: 1st Book Library
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

apparently very hot book....

I loved this book, very helpful...especially for the begginer therapist. He tells you exactly what you need to say and do. I have about 100 books in my bookshelf at work... this is the only one that was stolen....intern I suspect.

Good tool for beginners like me

Quick, handy suggestions, basic concepts syntesized in a (fortunately!) very brief book. You keep the treatises in your bookcase, and this one on your desk.

Wonderful

I owned this book when it was simply a self-published, Acrobat Reader, file. We used the text as a basic textbook in an introductory course in Family Therapy. Dr. Perry writes in a straightforward, non-technical, yet thorough manner. The reader will find the "Living into the Lesson" exercises at the end of each chapter particularly helpful.Dr. Perry had this text published at the repeated insistence of his students at the Southern Christian University. I am proud to have been one of them.

Worth the read

I hate reading textbooks because they are written so dryly. Dr. Perry's book is written in an interesting, understandable, and applicable way. I have found this book extremely easy to read, often reaching the end of a chapter far sooner than I anticipated. His examples and practical manner of writing make concepts become clear. He offers "how to" approaches in different styles for the different types of problems that counselors might encounter. Definately a tool to keep close at hand for any new counselor.

Basic Counseling Techniques: A Beginning Therapist's Toolkit

This book is an outstanding beginning help manual for therapists just starting out. The basics are easy understood in a concise and clear manner. Questions no one thought to answer in my training were answered in the book, I'd recommend this to counselor's of all levels.