"The eighth edition of Professional Counseling introduces a slightly new title and a new coauthor. Our new title (from The Professional Counselor) stresses the process of counseling as the crux of the text, which, of course, is what it has always been. With this edition, Dr. Janine M. Bernard brings her expertise in the supervision of counselors as an important lens through which to look at the fundamentals of how the counseling process is explained to counselors-in-training."--Preface.

Revision of: Professional counselor / Harold L. Hackney, Sherry Cormier. 2013. 7th ed.

1. Conceptualizing Professional Counseling -- 2. The Language of Counseling -- 3. The Essential Structure of Counseling -- 4. Initiating and Maintaining a Working Relationship -- 5. Assessing Client Problems -- 6. Developing Counseling Goals -- 7. Defining Strategies and Selecting Interventions -- 8. Affective Interventions -- 9. Cognitive Interventions -- 10. Behavioral Interventions -- 11. Systemic Interventions -- 12. Termination and Evaluation -- Appendix A. Integrative Practice Exercises -- Appendix B. Forms and Guides for Use in Counseling Practice -- References -- Index.