Includes bibliographies.

Chapter One : Perspective on Counseling -- Historical Antecedents of Counseling : A revisionist Point of View / Robert H. Rossberg and Linda Band -- The Politics of Counseling / Joseph Stubbins -- Dimensions of Counselor Functioning / Weston H. Morrill, Eugene R. Oetting, and James C. Hurst -- Chapter Two : Initiating Counseling -- Effects of Client Preference and Expectancy upon the Initial Interview / Andris Ziemelis -- What Patients Want from Counseling and Psychotherapy / Dennis P. Saccuzzo -- Interpersonal Testing and Pseudotesting in Counseling and Therapy / Jules Older -- Counseling the Reluctant Client / John Vriend and Wayne W. Dryer -- Psychotherapy : Factors Associated with the Race of the Therapist / Anna M. Jackson -- Counseling Implications of Recent Research on Women / Laurel W. Oliver -- Chapter Three : The Counseling Relationship -- The Interpersonal Relationship : The Core of Guidance / Carl. R. Rogers -- Toward a Comprehensive Model of Facilitative Interpersonal Processes / Robert R. Carkhuff -- Client In-Therapy Behavior : A Therapist Guide to Progess / Paul G. Schauble and Richard M. Pierce -- Self-Disclosure and the Counseling Process / Tamar Plitt Halpern and David M. Rosenthal -- Differential Use of Confrontationby High and Low Facilitative Therapists / Kevin M. Mitchell and Bernard G. Berenson -- Change Processes in Counseling and Psychotherapy / Stanely R. Strong and Ronald P. Matross -- Relationship Between Therapist and Client Interpersonal Behaviors and Psychotherapy Outcome / James E. Crowder -- Chapter Four : Counseling Strategies -- Adlerian Interview Strategies for Behavior Change / Thomas W. Allen -- The Role of the Therapist in Gestalt Therapy / Lawrence S. Levin and Irma Lee Shepherd -- Experience and Rationality : The Making of a Rational-Emotive Therapist / Albert Ellis -- Intensive Counseling / Carl E. Thoresen and Jane L. Anton -- Direct Decision Therapy / Harold Greenwald -- Brief Psychotherapy : A Viable Possibility with Adolescents / Mildred Eisenberg -- Some Psychoanalytic Considerations of Non-Psychoanalytic Therapies : On the Possibility of Integrating Treatment Approaches and Related Issues / Llyod H. Silverman -- Chapter Five : Communication in Counseling -- Counseling and the Psychology of Communication / Dorothy Loeffler -- Attending, Island, and Hiatus Behavior : A Process Conception of Counselor and Client Interaction / Harold L. Hackney, Allen E. Ivey, and Eugene R. Oetting -- Counseling : An Interpersonal Influence Process / Stanley R. Strong -- Nonverbal Communication and Counseling/Psychotherapy : A Review / Gerald A. Gladstein -- Chapter Six : Diagnosis -- Modern Approaches to Counseling "Diagnosis" / Francis P. Robinson -- The Uncommon Importance of Psychodiagnosis / Leonard Small -- Behavioral Analysis : An Alternative to Diagnostic Classification / Frederick H. Kanfer and George Saslow -- Vocational Diagnostic Interviews / Kathleen M. Patterson and James C. Hansen -- Chapter Seven : Tests, Information, and Decision Making -- Tests and Counseling : The Marriage That Failed / Leo Goldman -- Individual Inventory : Definition, Rationale, and Purposes / Louis J. Karmel -- Information and Counseling : A Dilemma / Leo Goldman -- The Computer : Guidance Tool of the Future / Joann Harris -- Decision-Making : A Conceptual Frame of Reference for Counseling / H. B. Gelatt -- Dimensions of Counseling for Career Development / Weston H. Morhill and David J. Forrest -- Chapter Eight : Values, Ethics, and Legalities in Counseling -- Counselor Role and Client Values / Gerald A. Gladstein -- A Rationale and Model for Changing Values in Helping Relationships / Ben Strickland -- Counselors, Confidences, and the Civil Liberties of Clients / Edward T. Ladd -- The Law and Counselor Ethics / Martha L. Ware -- Chapter Nine : Evaluation and Accountability in Counseling -- A Revolution in Counseling Research / Leo Goldman -- Needed : More Evaluation, Not Research / Harman D. Burck and Gary W. Peterson -- Counseling : Accountability, Reality, Credibility / Edwin L. Herr -- An Accountability Model for Counselors / John D. Krumboltz.

Counseling is a process of developing a cooperative relationship and then using that interaction to help clients explore themselves and their environments, gain a clearer understanding, and then work out appropriate behaviors. This book focuses on the process and procedures of counseling. A process involves a series of actions, changes, or functions that bring about some end. A procedure involves a set of established methods of conduct. Therefore, this book is designed to present materials illustrating established methods and concepts that counselors can use during the sequence of functions with clients.