Counseling Psychology: Theory and Practice

Counseling psychology is a sub-field of psychology. It involves applied work and research in several broad areas such as counseling process and outcome, career development and counseling, supervision and training. Assets and strengths, person-environment interactions, educational and career development are some of the unifying themes of counseling psychology. The process of counseling psychology is dependent upon therapist variables, client variables, cultural variables, counseling ethics, etc. Client variables include attitude and attachment style of the client. Cultural variables focus on how culture relates to help-seeking and counseling process and outcome. This book unravels the recent studies in the field of counseling psychology. It attempts to understand the varied aspects that fall under the discipline of counseling psychology and how such concepts have practical applications. Those in search of information to further their knowledge will be greatly assisted by this book.