Counseling: A Comprehensive Profession, 8e, has been adapted in order to make it relevant in the Indian context, without disturbing the original structure and content. The text presents counseling in a broad manner covering its history, theories, activities, specialties, and trends. In addition, this text concentrates on the multicultural, ethical, and legal environments in which counselors operate.
This adaptation title provides the much-needed interdisciplinary approach to counseling in the Indian context. Several concepts and developments in the current scenario of counseling in India have been accommodated in the present edition. The book hopes to increase recognition and acceptance of ‘counseling as a profession’ in India, and encourage further growth and development of research in counseling in the immediate future.
About the Author
Samuel T. Gladding, Wake Forest University
Promila Batra, Maharshi Dayanand University (M.D.U.), Rohtak, Haryana
Features
• All chapters focus on highlighting the current scenario of counseling in India. The current status and varying needs and methods for counseling in the context of India’s cultural heritage have been discussed in detail.
• All chapters focus on India-specific case examples. While preparing these real-life case examples, the adaptor has consulted many renowned Indian psychologists and doctors.
• The current edition has more than 300 updated and new references within its pages.
• A new appendix on the Indian Mental Health Bill, 2017 has been included so that students and teachers can study and understand the bill and its context to counseling as a profession in India.
Table Content
PART I Professional Foundations of Counseling
Chapter 1 Personal and Professional Aspects of Counseling
Chapter 2 Ethical and Legal Aspects of Counseling
Chapter 3 Counseling in a Multicultural Society
Chapter 4 Counseling with Diverse Populations 
PART II Counseling Processes and Theories 
Chapter 5 Building Counseling Relationships 
Chapter 6 Working in and Closing a Counseling Relationship 
Chapter 7 Psychoanalytic, Adlerian, and Humanistic Theories of Counseling 
Chapter 8 Behavioral, Cognitive, Systemic, Brief, and Crisis Theories of Counseling 
PART III Core Counseling Activities in Various Settings 
Chapter 9 Groups in Counseling 
Chapter 10 Consultation and Supervision 
Chapter 11 Evaluation and Research 
Chapter 12 Testing, Assessment, and Diagnosis in Counseling 
PART IV Counseling Specialties 
Chapter 13 Career Counseling over the Life Span 
Chapter 14 Couple and Family Counseling 
Chapter 15 Professional School Counseling 
Chapter 16 College Counseling and Student-Life Services 
Chapter 17 Abuse, Addiction, Disability, and Counseling 
Chapter 18 Clinical Mental Health and Private Practice Counseling 
EPILOGUE 
Appendix A HISTORY OF COUNSELING 
Appendix B SUMMARY TABLES OF MAJOR COUNSELING THEORIES 
Appendix C COUNSELING-RELATED ORGANIZATIONS 
APPENDIX D Glimpses of the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017
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