Forthcoming Counseling Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Solution Focused Coaching in Practice

   By Bill O'Connell, Stephen Palmer, Helen Williams

   Series: Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge

   Solution Focused Coaching in Practice is a practical ‘how-to’ guide that provides an invaluable overview of Solution Focused Coaching skills and techniques. Reflecting upon published research on the solution focused approach, Bill O’Connell, Stephen Palmer and Helen Williams bring their own...

   To Be Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge
2. Groups in Practice

   A School Counselor's Collection

   By Debra Madaris Efird

   This practical, user-friendly manual will provide school counselors with the information they need to set up and run twelve different counseling groups. Though the author has test-driven the groups with middle school students, the content is easily adaptable for upper elementary and high school...

   To Be Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Work and Family Policy

   International Comparative Perspectives

   Edited by Stephen Sweet

   Numerous challenges exist in respect to integrating work and family institutions and there is remarkable cross-national variation in the ways that societies respond to these concerns with policy. This volume examines these concerns by focusing on cross-national variation in structural/cultural...

   To Be Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Responsive School Practices to Support Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Students and Families

   By Emily S. Fisher, Kelly S. Kennedy

   Series: School-Based Practice in Action

   The needs and rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) students and families are often ignored, generally misunderstood, and only rarely given priority by the school system. This book provides a practical and useful guide for school-based mental health professionals to...

   To Be Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge
5. Ending Campus Violence

   New Approaches to Prevention

   By Brian Van Brunt

   With the growth of threats and violence in higher education settings, college campuses are increasingly expected to have systems in place to identify potentially aggressive individuals and intervene to ensure the safety of the campus population. This book will be useful for student affairs...

   To Be Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge
6. Refocused Psychotherapy as the First Line Intervention in Behavioral Health

   By Nicholas A Cummings, Janet L Cummings

   Written by father-daughter psychologists Nick and Janet Cummings, this text provides proven patient-responsive interventions by practitioners who together have nearly a century of hands-on practice and innovation between them. Refocused Psychotherapy responds directly to the recent decline of...

   To Be Published July 1st 2012 by Routledge
7. Adolescent Counselling Psychology

   Theory, Research and Practice

   Edited by Terry Hanley, Neil Humphrey, Clare Lennie

   Adolescent Counselling Psychology: Theory Research and Practice provides a thorough introduction to therapeutic practice with young people. As an edited text, it brings together some of the leading authorities on such work into one digestible volume. The text is divided into three major...

   To Be Published July 3rd 2012 by Routledge
8. Case Conceptualization

   Mastering this Competency with Ease and Confidence

   By Len Sperry, Jonathan Sperry

   Series: Core Competencies in Psychotherapy Series

   This is the type of book instructors, trainees, and clinicians need—a short text that demystifies the case conceptualization process and provides a streamlined method for learning and mastering this competency. It presents an integrative model for conceptualizing cases, dispels common myths about...

   To Be Published July 3rd 2012 by Routledge
9. Complicated Grief

   Scientific Foundations for Health Care Professionals

   Edited by Margaret Stroebe, Henk Schut, Jan van den Bout

   “Stroebe, Schut and van den Bout have succeeded in drawing together leading researchers, clinicians and academics who, between them, provide a comprehensive view of a complex and contentious area of discourse that has important implications for us all.” - Colin Murray Parkes, author of Bereavement:...

   To Be Published July 11th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Developing Practitioner

    Growth and Stagnation of Therapists and Counselors

    By Michael Helge Ronnestad, Thomas Skovholt

    This book provides a comprehensive overview of the professional development of counselors and therapists over the career lifespan. Drawing on their own extensive experience as psychotherapists, supervisors, teachers, and researchers, as well as from their own extensive study of the topic,...

    To Be Published July 19th 2012 by Routledge