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Theories at-a-Glance

The tables in this book compare theories over a range of topics, thereby providing you with the ability to easily compare, contrast, and grasp the practical aspects of each theory. These tables also serve as invaluable resources that can be used to review the key concepts, philosophies, limitations, contributions to multicultural counseling, applications, techniques, and goals of all theories in this text.

The following chart provides a convenient guide to the tables in this text.

Pages

6–7

Table 1.1

Overview of Contemporary Counseling Models

62–63

Table 4.1

Ego-Defense Mechanisms

65–66

Table 4.2

Comparison of Freud’s Psychosexual Stages and Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages

432

Table 15.1

The Basic Philosophies

433–434

Table 15.2

Key Concepts

438

Table 15.3

Goals of Therapy

441–442

Table 15.4

The Therapeutic Relationship

443–444

Table 15.5

Techniques of Therapy

444–445

Table 15.6

Applications of the Approaches

446

Table 15.7

Contributions to Multicultural Counseling

447

Table 15.8

Limitations in Multicultural Counseling

448–449

Table 15.9

Contributions of the Approaches

449–450

Table 15.10

Limitations of the Approaches

Overview of Focus Questions for the Theories

For the chapters dealing with the different theories, you will have a basic understanding of this book if you can answer the following questions as they apply to each of the eleven theories:

Who are the key figures (founder or founders) associated with the approach?

What are some of the basic assumptions underlying this approach?

What are a few of the key concepts that are essential to this theory?

What do you consider to be the most important goals of this therapy?

What is the role the therapeutic relationship plays in terms of therapy outcomes?

What are a few of the techniques from this therapy model that you would want to incorporate into your counseling practice?

What are some of the ways that this theory is applied to client populations, settings, and treatment of problems?

What do you see as the major strength of this theory from a diversity perspective?

What do you see as the major shortcoming of this theory from a diversity perspective?

What do you consider to be the most significant contribution of this approach?

What do you consider to be the most significant limitation of this approach?