Counseling Processes

II. DEFINITION OF TERMS Counseling - the act or process of giving counsel - the process of assisting and guiding clients, especially by a trained person on a professional basis, to resolve personal, social, or psychological problems and difficulties - a generic term that is used to cover the several processes of interviewing, testing, guiding, advising, etc. designed to help an individual solve problems, plan for the future, etc. Process - a systematic series of …

…additional work on both the counselor and the counselee's part. VII. BIBLIOGRAPHY Bootzin, Richard R., and Joan Ross Acocella. Abnormal Psychology. New York: McGraw Hill, Inc., 1988. Gormly, Anne V. Understanding Psychology. California: Glencoe/McGraw Hill, 1986. Hill, Clara E. Therapist Techniques and Client Outcomes. California: Sage Publications, 1989. Kalat, James W. Introduction to Psychology. California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1990. Peake, Thomas H., Borduin, Charles M. and Robert P. Archer. Brief Psychotherapies Changing Frames of Mind. California: Sage Publications, 1988.