Intentional Counseling

<p>Written for students in training and those new to the helping profession <em>Intentional Counseling: Practice Guided by Theory</em> blends theory practice and guided personalized application to help readers move from simply gathering and receiving information to using information effectively to help their clients. <br /><br />The book discusses the importance of acquiring the necessary cognitive skills to “think like a counselor.” Case illustrations presentations and analyses in combination with directed activities provide opportunities for both practice and feedback. Each chapter includes a description of the theoretical constructs presented in the chapter supporting research clinical illustrations of the concepts and constructs and guided practice. <br /><br />Designed to help those new to the field <em>Intentional Counseling</em> moves beyond the traditional discussion of counseling theories to demonstrate their values in guiding practice decisions. <em>Intentional Counseling</em> helps the reader employ organizing schema to data reception storage and utilization all in service of procedural knowledge. Illustrated through application of solution-based cognitive behavioral reality therapy/choice theory and feminist counseling theories the book trains readers to think like experts and then act accordingly.</p><p><strong>Dr. Richard Parsons</strong> has been a private practitioner for over thirty years and serves as a consultant to mental health service organizations throughout Pennsylvania New Jersey and Delaware. He is also a professor in the Counselor Education Department at West Chester University and the author of over 80 books chapters and articles.</p><p><strong>Dr. Cheryl Neale-McFall</strong> is an assistant professor at West Chester University a nationally board-certified counselor and a licensed professional counselor who has worked with clients at every point in the lifespan. Her research interests include counselor-educator-mothers’ work/life enrichment counseling supervision and counselor identity formation.</p>