Description
PEARSON INDIA Counseling A Comprehensive Profession 8Th Edition by Samuel T Gladding and Promila Batra
Counseling: A Comprehensive Profession, 8e, has been adapted in order to make it relevant in the Indian context, without disturbing the original structure and content. The text presents counseling in a broad manner covering its history, theories, activities, specialties, and trends. In addition, this text concentrates on the multicultural, ethical, and legal environments in which counselors operate.
This adaptation title provides the much-needed interdisciplinary approach to counseling in the Indian context. Several concepts and developments in the current scenario of counseling in India have been accommodated in the present edition. The book hopes to increase recognition and acceptance of 'counseling as a profession' in India, and encourage further growth and development of research in counseling in the immediate future.
Table of Content:
PART I Professional Foundations of Counseling
Chapter 1 Personal and Professional Aspects of Counseling
Chapter 2 Ethical and Legal Aspects of Counseling
Chapter 3 Counseling in a Multicultural Society
Chapter 4 Counseling with Diverse Populations
PART II Counseling Processes and Theories
Chapter 5 Building Counseling Relationships
Chapter 6 Working in and Closing a Counseling Relationship
Chapter 7 Psychoanalytic, Adlerian, and Humanistic Theories of Counseling
Chapter 8 Behavioral, Cognitive, Systemic, Brief, and Crisis Theories of Counseling
PART III Core Counseling Activities in Various Settings
Chapter 9 Groups in Counseling
Chapter 10 Consultation and Supervision
Chapter 11 Evaluation and Research
Chapter 12 Testing, Assessment, and Diagnosis in Counseling
PART IV Counseling Specialties
Chapter 13 Career Counseling over the Life Span
Chapter 14 Couple and Family Counseling
Chapter 15 Professional School Counseling
Chapter 16 College Counseling and Student-Life Services
Chapter 17 Abuse, Addiction, Disability, and Counseling
Chapter 18 Clinical Mental Health and Private Practice Counseling
EPILOGUE
Appendix A HISTORY OF COUNSELING
Appendix B SUMMARY TABLES OF MAJOR COUNSELING THEORIES
Appendix C COUNSELING-RELATED ORGANIZATIONS
APPENDIX D Glimpses of the Mental Healthcare Act,
Salient Features:
• All chapters focus on highlighting the current scenario of counseling in India. The current status and varying needs and methods for counseling in the context of India's cultural heritage have been discussed in detail.
• All chapters focus on India-specific case examples. While preparing these real-life case examples, the adaptor has consulted many renowned Indian psychologists and doctors.
• The current edition has more than 300 updated and new references within its pages.
• A new appendix on the Indian Mental Health Bill, 2017 has been included so that students and teachers can study and understand the bill and its context to counseling as a profession in India.