Table of Contents:
  • Editors preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • The value of theory to reflective practice
  • Theory and the reflective practitioner / Richard C. Parsons
  • Multicultural considerations : within and beyond traditional counseling theories / Dong Xie
  • Case conceptualization : the case of Y-Chun / Naijian Zhang & Richard D. Parsons
  • Theories and their applications
  • Freud and psychoanalytic theory / Faith Deveaux
  • Individual psychology-Alfred Adler / Robyn L. Trippany-Simmons, Matthew R. Buckley, Kristin Meany-Walen, Tiffany Rush-Wilson
  • Existential counseling and psychotherapy / Mark B. Scholl, Mike Walsh, & Michelle Perepiczka
  • Carl Rogers and person-centered counseling / Marjorie C. Witty & Ray Adomaitis
  • Gestalt therapy / Joseph Spillman & Christina M. Rosen
  • Cognitive-behavior theories / Julia Porter
  • Behavior theory / Barbara Trolley & Christopher Siuta
  • Reality therapy / David A. Scott & Hannah G. Barfield)
  • Solution focused therapy / Brand Flamez & Joshua C. Watson
  • Relational-cultural theory in the context of feminism / Kristi B.Cannon, Jason Patton, & Stacee L.Reicherzer
  • Family and couples therapy / Rebecca Goldberg
  • Looking to the future
  • Seeking integration / Adam Zagelbaum, Maureen Buckley, Shana Friedman, and Kalia Gurnee
  • East meets west : integration and complementation / Michael G. Laurent & Shengli Dong.