Counseling for Wellness and Prevention brings Preventative Counseling, one of prevention’s founding texts, firmly into the twenty-first century. This book thoroughly updates and significantly expands discussions of practical applications and emerging best practices. Counselors and counseling psychologists will find evidence-based, contemporary guidance to help them engage in efforts to enhance overall wellness and ward off future dysfunction.
Key Features
- Evidence-based practices for enhancing client wellness.
- Strategies for environmental and system change, such as advocacy and community organisation.
- Explicit connections to CACREP accreditation standards for counselor-education courses.
- Applicable in psychology programs with APA-approved prevention guidelines.
- Relevant for social work, emphasising prevention and community change.
Additional Information
Author Robert Conyne demonstrates how the traditional model of one-to-one therapy can be expanded to embrace wellness and prevention.
The book is well-suited for adoption in counselor-education courses and includes explicit connections to CACREP accreditation standards. It’s also an excellent choice for programs in psychology, where the APA-approved prevention guidelines for psychologists are now available, and in social work, where prevention and community change have long been hallmarks.
