Counseling Techniques The third edition of Counseling Techniques: Improving Relationships with Others, Ourselves, Our Families and Our Environment enhances the author’s previous efforts to provide a comprehensive overview of counseling techniques in a manner that makes these theories accessible to students pursuing mental health professions, counselor educators, and seasoned practitioners alike. New to this edition is a chapter on play therapy and a host of other updates that illustrate ways to use different techniques in different situations with different populations. Counseling Techniques stresses the need to recognize and treat the client within the context of culture, ethnicity, interpersonal resources, and systemic support, and it shows the reader how to meet these needs using more than 500 treatment techniques, each of which is accompanied by step-by-step procedures and evaluation methods. Rosemary A. Thompson, EdD, LPC, NCC, NCSC has over 25 years of experience in public schools as a school counselor and administrator working with children, adolescents, and families. She taught concurrently in the department of counseling and human services at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and was an associate professor in the school of psychology and counseling at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She is currently in private practice with Phoenix Mental Health Services, LLC, in Virginia Beach. Counseling Techniques Improving Relationships with Others, Ourselves, Our Families, and Our Environment Third Edition Rosemary A. Thompson Third edition published 2016 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2016 Rosemary A. Thompson The right of Rosemary A. Thompson to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice : Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Note from the author: Congress enacted the No Electronic Theft (NET) Act in 1997 to facilitate prosecution of copyright violation on the Internet. The NET Act makes it a federal crime to reproduce, distribute, or share copies of electronic copyrighted works such as songs, movies, games, or software programs, even if the person copying or distributing the material acts without commercial purpose and/or receives no private financial gain. Electronic copyright infringement carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The NET Act is applicable in situations such as running a file sharing application with outgoing transfers enabled, hosting files on a web account, transferring files through IRC, and other methods of making copyrighted material available over networks. First edition published by Accelerated Development, A Member of the Taylor and Francis Group 1101 Vermont Avenue, N.W., Suite 200 Washington, D.C. 20005— 3521 Second edition published by Routledge 2003 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Thompson, Rosemary Counseling techniques: improving relationships with others, ourselves, our families, and our environment / Rosemary Thompson. — 3rd ed. pages cm Revised edition of the author's Counseling techniques, 2003. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Psychotherapy. 2. Counseling. I. Title. RC480.T449 2015 616.89'14—dc23 2015008345 Typeset in Galliard by Apex CoVantage, LLC ISBN: 978-0-415-70492-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-415-70493-9 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-88611-4 (ebk)