Advanced Techniques for Counseling and Psychotherapy

This is a superb book, rich in understanding of human behavior and creative in helping clients grow and change....If you aspire to be great in this profession, you will use up a highlighter on this book.

-Kevin Elko, PhD Author of The Pep Talk and True Greatness

It is rare for a book in counseling to enlighten its readers and enable them to see the profession, themselves, and their clients in an original, enhanced, and productive way?. Conte is a master storyteller, a clear communicator, an innovative thinker, and a creative therapist.

Samuel T. Gladding, PhD Chair and Professor, Department of Counseling Wake Forest University

This book presents advanced techniques, concepts, and models that have proven to be both practical and readily usable for counselors who work with individuals, couples, families, and children. Dr. Conte provides in-depth coverage of a wide array of therapies, including metaphor, creative, projective, and classic.

This collection of advanced, creative techniques, each accompanied with detailed case studies, will prove useful for both health professionals and counseling students.

Key Features:

• Provides guidelines for some of the basics, such as active listening, empathizing, self-disclosure, and dealing with resistance
• Guidelines for using classic techniques include Adler's Push-Button technique, the ABC Model, and eye integration therapy
• Includes introductions to the author's original models such as the Five Errors of Communication and the Four C's of Parenting

Using lucid, engaging prose, this book contains all the essential, creative, and advanced techniques that every counselor, psychotherapist, and educator should know. "

"This is a superb book, rich in understanding of human behavior and creative in helping clients grow and change....If you aspire to be great in this profession, you will use up a highlighter on this book."

-Kevin Elko, PhD

Author of The Pep Talk and True Greatness

"It is rare for a book in counseling to enlighten its readers and enable them to see the profession, themselves, and their clients in an original, enhanced, and productive way . Conte is a master storyteller, a clear communicator, an innovative thinker, and a creative therapist."

Samuel T. Gladding, PhD

Chair and Professor, Department of Counseling

Wake Forest University

This book presents advanced techniques, concepts, and models that have proven to be both practical and readily usable for counselors who work with individuals, couples, families, and children. Dr. Conte provides in-depth coverage of a wide array of therapies, including metaphor, creative, projective, and classic.

This collection of advanced, creative techniques, each accompanied with detailed case studies, will prove useful for both health professionals and counseling students.

Key Features:

• Provides guidelines for some of the basics, such as active listening, empathizing, self-disclosure, and dealing with resistance

• Guidelines for using classic techniques include Adler's Push-Button technique, the ABC Model, and eye integration therapy

• Includes introductions to the author's original models such as the "Five Errors of Communication" and the "Four C's of Parenting"
  

Using lucid, engaging prose, this book contains all the essential, creative, and advanced techniques that every counselor, psychotherapist, and educator should know.

Christian Conte, PhD, is a faculty member in the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology at the University of Nevada. He has received the Silver Compass Award for teaching; has published refereed articles in several professional journals; and presented on Analytical Psychology, Yield Theory, the Five Errors of Communication, and intertwining mythological tales with clinical stories at state, national, and international conferences.
Dr. Conte's current research involves applying his depth-counseling approach to domestic violence offenders in South Lake Tahoe, CA. He provides clinical consultations to community organizations in Nevada and California. Dr. Conte lives in Sparks, NV with his beautiful wife Kristen and their phenomenal daughter Kaia.