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This seventh edition of Counseling and Psychotherapy: Theories and Interventions presents a representative variety of theories and conceptual frameworks that are used across helping professions to organize client case conceptualization and guide the path for therapeutic transformation. Although there are hundreds of discrete therapies, they are offshoots of greater branches of the therapeutic tradition tree. This book has been created by a diverse group of experts, who share their theoretical knowledge of different branches of theory as well as the intersectionality of their lived experience and culture. The book covers not only traditional counseling and psychotherapeutic theories but also theories that have emerged in response to multicultural and social justice work with clients. The greater a counselor’s or therapist’s awareness of the strengths and possibilities inherent in numerous theoretical frames of reference, the greater the potential for understanding the uniqueness of a particular client and for developing the most effective treatment plan.

This edition presents dynamic and fresh perspectives and includes critical material not addressed in other counseling and psychotherapy textbooks, such as a chapter that focuses on multicultural and social justice counseling through relational-cultural theory, a chapter that addresses psychodynamic models used by today’s practitioners rather than only classic psychoanalytic theory, a chapter that examines third-wave cognitive behavioral theories with mindfulness-based interventions, a chapter on feminist theory, a chapter on integrating theories via emotion-focused therapy, and a chapter on using creative approaches in the context of counseling and psychotherapy. The book’s unique approach and expanded perspectives enhance its contemporary relevance and should increase reader interest in the material.

This book is unique in both format and content. All the contributing authors are experts who provide state-of-the-art information about theories of counseling and psychotherapy (see the “Meet the Contributors” section for their backgrounds). In addition, each chapter discusses applications of the theory as it relates to one particular case study of a hypothetical client named Clarita, who is introduced here in this Preface.