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In this engaging book, Jeffrey Kottler and Richard Balkin address common misconceptions about what works in counseling and offer suggestions for building constructive counseling relationships and facilitating positive counseling outcomes. Key aspects of the client-counselor relationship are supported by interesting examples and stories integrated with clinically useful research on counseling results. Part 1 reviews basic assumptions about the nature of helping relationships and examines how and why they can empower client change efforts. Part 2 describes practical approaches to encourage client trust and growth, including chapters on the cultural and environmental context of relationships; the ways in which counseling is used to treat trauma; how exchanging stories solidifies and fortifies counseling relationships; and using creative and innovative techniques to enhance relationships. Part 3 discusses the influence of relationships on counselors' personal lives and explores how counselors are affected by their work, process disappointments and failures, and deal with personal conflicts.

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Jeffrey Kottler is one of the foremost authorities on relationships in counseling and on advocacy efforts. He is the author of more than 80 books in the field that have been translated into more than two dozen languages. Jeffrey’s books are used in universities around the world and are considered classics among practicing teachers, counselors, psychologists, health professionals, and social justice advocates. Some of his most highly regarded works include On Being a Therapist, Changing People’s Lives While Transforming Your Own: Paths to Social Justice and Global Human Rights, Creative Breakthroughs in Therapy: Tales of Transformation and Astonishment, Change: What Leads to Personal Transformation, On Being a Master Therapist: Practicing What You Preach, and Stories We’ve Heard, Stories We’ve Told: Life-Changing Narratives in Therapy and Everyday Life. Richard Balkin is a professor and Doctoral Program Coordinator at the University of Louisville. He is the editor of the Journal of Counseling & Development, the flagship journal for the American Counseling Association, and is past president of the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling. His primary research interests include counseling outcomes, research methods, counseling adolescents, and cultural differences in counseling. He is a past recipient of the ACA Best Practices Research Award and the ACES Counseling Vision and Innovation Award.  Rick has published more than 60 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, with the majority being quantitative in nature. He is the author of The Theory and Practice of Assessment in Counseling (Pearson) and has authored book chapters on research methods, as well as several articles related to research methods. 

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