On becoming a counselor : a basic guide for non-professional counselors / [print]
Eugene Kennedy and Sara C. Charles.
- New expanded ed.
- New York : Crossroad, [(c)1990.
- 415 pages ; 23 cm.
"Portions of this book appeared first in Stress I and Stress II"--T.p. verso.
Emotional involvement Hard-bought wisdom What other people do to us What we do to others Our approach to others What is it like to be real? What can we do for others? Questions for counselors How do we interview? More aspects of interviewing The resistant client The reluctant client The problem of diagnosis Diagnosis : goals and resources Listening to the story The problem of referral When can I say what I feel? Supportive psychotherapy Problems of healthy people Translating the languages of inner trouble Other dialects of symptomatic language Fear and trembling : context for anxiety The everyman illness : depression Further aspects of depression The core of depression Introductory notes on personality disorders The gift of tongues : the obsessive style More on the complex languages of the obsessive style The histrionic personality More on the histrionic personality The deceptive language of the antisocial personality The most difficult language of all : that of the seriously disturbed The paranoid personality disorder Borderline and narcissistic personality disorders -- Marriage counseling More on marriage counseling Death in our culture Suicide risks : who are they? Suicide : weighing the risk Working with grief and mourning Aftermath of grief Emergencies : being a steady presence Crises : understanding and intervention Drugs : use and abuse Persons with drinking problems Counseling the AIDS patient Taking counsel with ourselves.