Past Influences, Present Trends, and Future Challenges in Counseling and Psychotherapy

1. provide you with information that is foundational in understanding numerous factors that have contributed to the evolution of counseling and psychotherapy; 2. introduce you to an integral approach to counseling and psychotherapy theories and practices; 3. assist you in gaining an understanding of key elements related to various theories that are currently being used by many practitioners; 4. broaden your understanding of the impact of various changes occurring in the mental health professions that are relevant to the effective implementation of different counseling and psychotherapy theories; 5. discuss the relevance of recent advances in neuroscience to the work practitioners do in the field; 6. emphasize the importance of ethics in professional practice; 7. describe some of the ways that advances in technology are impacting the work mental health practitioners do; and 8. stress the need to become a culturally competent practitioner. Chapter 1