About the Book
Counseling Techniques provides a useful resource for any type of counseling practitioner. Presenting a wide variety of the most effective and commonly used techniques associated with various diagnoses, theoretical bases, and client populations, it offers experienced therapists and students alike a single, trustworthy resource for clinical reference and guidance.
Each chapter includes a user-friendly, step-by-step explanation of the techniques covered. Sections survey the following:
Basic types of techniques (cognitive, behavioral, experiential, and more)
Techniques for children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families
Techniques for a wide variety of individual and family issues, including emotional dysregulation, shame, loss, sexual abuse, trauma, domestic violence, attachment wounds, and much more
Featuring a lineup of top-notch, highly experienced counselors and thoroughly integrated with a Christian worldview, Counseling Techniques will equip therapists and students in various helping disciplines for the frequent clinical issues that arise in all forms of counseling.
Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION
(1) The Role of Techniques in Counseling
(2) Evidence-Based Counseling
TYPES OF TECHNIQUES
(3) Cognitive
(4) Awareness and Emotion
(5) Behavioral
(6) Experiential
(7) Spiritual
TECHNIQUES FOR POPULATIONS
(8) Children
(9) Adolescents
(10) Couples
(11) Families
TECHNIQUES FOR INDIVIDUAL PROBLEMS
(12) Coping Skills
(13) Emotional Dysregulation
(14) Behavioral Dysregulation
(15) Shame
(16) Attachment Wounds
(17) Trauma
(18) Loss
(19) Sexual Addiction
(20) Self-Injury
(21) Soul Growth and Sense of Self
TECHNIQUES FOR COUPLE AND FAMILY PROBLEMS
(22) Family Conflict
(23) Couple Sexual Issues
(24) Infidelity
(25) Betrayed Spouse
(26) Forgiveness
(27) Family of Origin Issues
(28) Domestic Violence
About the Author :
John C. Thomas (PhD, University of South Carolina; PhD, Capella University) is professor of counseling and family studies at Liberty University. A licensed professional counselor and certified substance abuse counselor, he has written several books including Therapeutic Expedition and, with Gary Habermas, What’s Good About Feeling Bad?.
Review :
“All practitioners are better with some tools than others. This book prepares students and newer counselors with an enlarged toolkit and provides wisdom on how to use the tools you they may not be as familiar with. The range of strategies, interventions, and techniques is impressive, as are the counseling professionals presenting them.”
“Counseling Techniques blends theological perspective, counseling strategies, and learned wisdom from numerous seasoned practitioners. Accessible to counselors at all skill levels, the contributors deliver practical insight as well as consolidate useful techniques into a valuable reference resource.”
“Counseling Techniques is a comprehensive resource that will be of great benefit to students and practitioners alike. Christian clinicians and those who train them will be indebted to John Thomas and the array of contributors who have offered us such a wealth of knowledge and practical direction.”
“Counseling Techniques is a valuable resource for all Christian counselors and psychotherapists. The chapters are authored by the leading experts in the field, and Dr. Thomas brings the volume together well with a winsome and wise introduction where he situates strategies, interventions, and techniques in the broader context of effective counseling.”
“Counseling Techniques provides novice and advanced students as well as practicing psychotherapists with detailed information on clinical techniques stemming from a diversity of counseling theories. Leading Christian experts in collaboration with Dr. John Thomas skillfully integrate theory, research, practice, and Christian thought in a resourceful text for the counseling community.”
“Counseling Techniques, edited by John C. Thomas, is an excellent and very useful compendium of clinical strategies, interventions, and techniques for Christian counselors in helping a wide variety of clients. There are eleven chapters on theory-based strategies, four on population-based strategies, and twelve on clinical issue-based strategies. I highly recommend this practical resource as must reading for Christian counselors and others involved in people-helping.”
“I found Counseling Techniques to be erudite, comprehensive, practical and innovative. I expect the text to become an invaluable resource to clinicians, supervisors, and counselor educators. It will take its place among the truly outstanding books in the realms of clinical training, supervision, and practice. It is a book that will be kept within arm’s reach both literally and figuratively. It may be placed on a shelf, but it will not collect dust.”
“The field of Christian counseling continues to grow and expand at a rapid pace. Every day we look for insights and tools to help expand our work with lost, confused, broken, wounded, or exploited people. This is a real gift to the profession. Each chapter in Counseling Techniques translates theory into practice through effective and practical discussion of strategies, intervention, and techniques that are grounded in and supported by theory and research. The twenty-eight chapters are also jam-packed with conceptual, clinical, theoretical, and theological resources. Be sure to add this book to your library!”
“With ever-changing cultural trends and more updated research in the field, the need for a counseling-techniques book that marries the data with the truth of Scripture cannot be understated. Dr. John Thomas carefully selects the most respected practitioners in the field to provide a comprehensive yet-easy-to-read manual for today’s counseling student. I know this because I personally sat under Dr. Thomas and many of the authors in this book as a student myself. You can rest assured that not only are you getting the best of scholarly wisdom, you’re getting experts who genuinely care for the human condition. This is a must-have book for every Christian counselor and counseling student in the twenty-first century.”
