Product Description This revision of Gerald Corey's best-selling text introduces students to the major theories of counseling (psychoanalytic, Adlerian, existential, person-centered, Gestalt, reality, behavior, cognitive-behavior, family systems, feminist and, NEW to this edition, postmodern approaches) and demonstrates how each theory can be applied to a single case ("Stan"). Reviewed by 27 of the field's leading experts, Corey's Seventh Edition covers the major concepts of counseling theories, shows students how to apply those theories in practice, and helps them learn to integrate the theories into an individualized counseling style. Incorporating the thinking, feeling, and behaving dimensions of human experience, Corey offers an easy-to-understand text that helps students compare and contrast the therapeutic models. This book is the center of a suite of products that include a revised student manual, a revised casebook, a companion text, and an all-new CD-ROM.
Not what I expected November 19, 2008 The book didn't arrive until well into the second week of class and when it finally got there I was expecting it to be in "like new condition" as advertised, but instead it has a lot of highlighting and post-it notes (which now do not want to come out easily) attached to the middle of several pages. I ended up ordering a brand new copy so anything I saved was more than lost by the time it was all over. It would have been better for me to have just gotten a new copy from the school bookstore to begin with. Oh well, live and learn.
Student Manual for Corey's Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy, 7th October 13, 2008 This goes along well with the text and is an excellent study guide with the textbook. I recommend it. It is a good overview of psychotherapy theories.
Excellent Source September 22, 2008 I ordered this book while studying for the National Board of Certified Counselor's Exam. (NCC) I was familiar with Corey's textbooks that I used while completing my master's in THE EIGHTIES- but this volume far surpassed my expectations.
The volume is filled with information that makes the theories and theorist's discussed so much more available and more easily integrated. I wish the books I had had as an undergrad were so well written and full of useful tables and easily compared information. The biographies of the different therapist/theorists also helped categorize my knowledge and made for historical understandings and their effects on our society.
I have already referenced the book in some continuing education classes I have taught and recommend it for the professional as well as the "lay" reader. Best if all- I passed the NCC exam seventeen years after my last licensing exam! Kudos!
Pay attention August 20, 2008 I really meant to order the textbook, not the student manual. For the price, I thought that's what I was getting.
Great Text! May 26, 2008 This was a very thorough and easy-to-read book about the various theories of counseling and psychotherapy. I, personally, often need "supplemental" things to go with a text to help me learn the material. This book did a great job of explaining the concepts, comparing and contrasting theories, and giving examples of practice and assessment. Although someone else that wrote a review didn't particularly care for the student manual, I found it extremely helpful while preparing for my exams. I read the chapters first, and actually enjoyed the readings, and found that "brushing up" with the student manual before my exam was very helpful, and reinforced the theoretical concepts. Also, the Case Study book was required for my class, and is an excellent source for understanding the theories "in action", so to speak. When learning these types of theories, it is very helpful having concrete examples to work with, and Corey does an excellent job with that. Over all, a great text, with lots of info that is clearly illustrated with examples and case studies.
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