Principles of Counseling and Psychotherapy

Paul R. Peluso, PhD, LMHC, LMFT is Senior Associate Dean in the College of Education and Professor in the Department of Counselor Education at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, USA.

Acknowledgment Introduction: Learning to Think Like a Therapist: Characteristics of Expert Therapist Thinking and Why It Is Important to Learn How to Think Like a Therapist 1. Overview of the State of Psychotherapy and the Domains of Competence 2. The Domain of Connecting with and Engaging the Client: Listening 3. The Domain of Connecting with and Engaging the Client: Responding 4. The Domain of Assessment: Clients’ Symptoms, Stages of Change, Needs, Strengths, and Resources 5. The Domain of Assessment: The Theme Behind a Client’s Narrative, Therapeutic Goals, and Client Input About Goal Achievement 6. The Domain of Establishing and Maintaining the Therapeutic Relationship and the Therapeutic Alliance: Relationship Building 7. The Domain of Establishing and Maintaining the Therapeutic Relationship and the Therapeutic Alliance: The Therapeutic Alliance 8. The Domain of Understanding Clients’ Cognitive Schemas: Foundations 9. The Domain of Understanding Clients’ Cognitive Schemas: Assessment and Clinical Conceptualization 10. The Domain of Addressing and Managing Clients’ Emotional States: Basic Understandings 11. The Domain of Addressing and Managing Clients’ Emotional States: Managing Common Negative Emotions in Therapy 12. The Domain of Addressing and Resolving Ambivalence: Understanding and Identifying Client Ambivalence 13. The Domain of Addressing and Resolving Ambivalence: Working with and Resolving Client Ambivalence 14. Summary and the Disengagement/Engagement Hypothesis