Book Summary: Features 11 theoretical approaches in action! In this nationally acclaimed casebook, students follow master teacher Gerald Corey and many of the most highly respected founders and practitioners in contemporary therapy today, as they apply key counseling approaches to the needs of client Ruth. This edition includes a new chapter on counseling Ruth from multicultural and integrative perspectives, additional dialogues between the 26 consulting therapists and Ruth, and new sections throughout.

Book Summary: A central client, Ruth, becomes the focus for the application of nine therapeutic techniques: psychoanalytic, Adlerian, existential, person-centered, Gestalt, behavior, cognitive-behavior, and reality therapies - and, new to this edition, family systems therapy. You'll deal with Ruth (and clients from other case studies) as active counselors, participating in a variety of role-play situations. In the process, you'll develop an understanding of the counseling process and of the complex professional and personal issues that are triggered in the counseling relationship.