Counseling psychology: an integrated approach

Counseling Psychology: An Integrated Positive Approach introduces a new dimension in counseling psychology which includes both symptom treatment and positive psychology; this unique approach guides readers to enhance clients' positive potential, rather than focusing solely on the treatment of clients' negative symptoms.-An integrative counseling approach which maximizes graduate students' understanding of counseling theories and positive psychology -Enables counselors to tailor integrative counseling to multicultural clients, helping graduate students and mental health professionals become culturally sensitive -Discusses how clients manage day to day living, and can even thrive despite severe symptoms '

Title page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; PART I: Conceptual Framework; 1 Introduction; Historical Background; Integration I: Counseling in Positive Psychology; Integration II: Counseling in Multicultural Populations; Suggestions for the Use of this Book; Concluding Remarks; Review Questions: What Do You Think?; 2 Therapeutic Relationship; What is Positive Empathetic Rapport?; Understand Clients' Strengths and Characters; Positive Empathetic Rapport in a Multicultural Context; Concluding Remarks; Review Questions: What Do You Think?; 3 Powered by Struggles and Strengths

Current Counseling Theories: Are They Enough?What is Missing from the Current Theories?; Positive Psychology: A New Blood to the Field?; Concluding Remarks; Review Questions: What Do You Think?; PART II: Integration of Counseling Theories and Positive Psychology; 4 Positive Psychology in Counseling; Definition of Positive Psychology; Historical Context; Theoretical Principles; Limitations of Positive Psychology; Positive Psychology for Multicultural Populations; Concluding Remarks; Review Questions: What Do You Think?; 5 Psychoanalytic Therapy; Historical Context; Theoretical Principles

An Integration: Posi…