The only textbook explicitly designed to address counseling with adults who are coping with individual, relationship, and work transitions, this volume integrates the basic tenets of adult development with therapeutic practice. It is based on Schlossberg's theory of transitions, a new process and content model that offers effective techniques for helping adults to understand and successfully navigate normal life transitions.
AssessmentGoal Setting; Interventions; Termination and Follow-Up; The Transition Model and the Hackney-Cormier Model: An Integrative Approach; Assessment; Goal Setting; A Case Study; Interventions; Behavioral Interventions; Conclusion; Exercises; 8. Helping Clients Deal With Nonevent Transitions; Step 1: Understand Nonevents; Where Do Unmet Dreams Reside?; What Triggers Nonevents?; What Types of Nonevents Exist?; Are All Nonevents the Same?; Exercises 1: Listen With a Third Ear; Step 2: Develop Specific Strategies for Clients to Use as They Cope with Nonevents; Discovering.