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Strength-Centered Counseling
Integrating Postmodern Approaches and Skills With Practice
- Colin C. Ward - Antioch University, Seattle
- Teri Reuter - Strength-Centered Counseling, Orlando FL
September 2010 | 216 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Integrates the most popular and most used counseling techniques into current teaching and practice. This text provides a frameworkfor the synthesis of postmodern theories of counseling. The cutting-edge Strength Centered Counseling model can be incorporated effectively with the more traditional models of counseling, resolving the ambiguity about how postmodernism fits into every day practice and results in more direct application of knowledge and skill sets for training in counselor education. Authors Colin Ward and Teri Reuter offer a practical and straightforward resource that presents clients with opportunities to look at life not only from a context of problems and adversity; but also of solutions, strengths, and hope.
PART I: FOUNDATIONS OF STRENGTH-CENTERED COUNSELING
1. The Essence of Strength-Centered Counseling
2. Emergence of Postmodernism
3. Postmodern Counseling
4. Central Role of Language in Strength-Centered Counseling
PART II: PHASES OF STRENGTH-CENTERED COUNSELING
Phase One: Shared Understanding
5. The Stance
6. The Steps
Phase Two: Contracted Change
7. Envisioning a Preferred Life
8. Understanding Goals
Phase Three: Developed Lifestyle
9. Understanding Personal Wellness
10. Practicing Personal Preferences
PART III: RESILIENCE FOR THE STRENGTH-CENTERED COUNSELOR
11. Becoming a Competent Strength-Centered Counselor
12: A Strength-Centered Counselor's Survival Guide
Appendices
Appendix A: Change Plan Worksheet
Appendix B: Strength-Centered Counselor Stance Interview and Reflection Guide
Appendix C: Engages Curiosity: Phase One - Interview Guide
Appendix D: Contracted Change: Phase Two - Interview Guide
Appendix E: Scaling for Wellness Understanding - Informal Interview Format
Appendix F: Strength Cards
References
About the Authors
Up to date and informative, as well as easy to read.
Humanities, Emdpire State College
November 24, 2010
