Preface: Common sense in a changing world -- Acknowledgments -- part 1. Counselors: who are they and what do they do? -- Guiding principles -- The stress of emotional involvement -- Hardbought wisdom -- Relating with others: what other people do to us -- Relating with others: what we do to them -- Relating with others: revelations about ourselves -- The role demands of counselors: being real -- The self as an instrument in helping others -- Are we friends or counselors? -- part 2. How do we interview? -- A problem: the reluctant person -- I won't dance, you can't make me! -- Plotting our course -- Diagnosis: an overview -- Listening to the lvies of others -- To whom shall we go? -- Countertransference: can I say what I feel? -- Supportive psychotherapy -- part 3. The language of seriously disturbed persons -- Ever person's illness: our changing moods -- The many variants of anxiety -- Stress: no life without it -- Counseling persons with sexual disorders -- Substances: use and abuse -- Reading the signs of neurocognitive disorders -- Introductory notes on personality disorders -- Personality disorders: Cluster A -- Personality disorders: Cluster B -- Personality disorders: Cluster C -- part 4. Marriage counseling -- Counseling the person with HIV/AIDS -- Death in our culture -- Bereavement: suffering our losses -- Suicide: weighing the risk -- Emergencies: being a steady presence -- Taking counsel with ourselves -- Notes -- Index.
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