Core Competencies in Counseling and Psychotherapy ─ Becoming a Highly Competent and Effective Therapist

"Core Competencies provides the state of art knowledge in the rapidly changing field of psychotherapy. If you only read one professional book this year this is the one!"---Jon Carlson, PsyD, EdD, ABPP, Distinguished Professor, Governors State University

"This book will no doubt foster the professional development process in all who choose to read it."---From Foreword by Nadine J. Kaslow, PhD, ABPP, Chair, APA Task Force on Assessment of Competence in Professional Psychology

Counseling and psychotherapy training and practice increasingly calls for accountability, evidence-based practice, and treatment effectiveness. From these demands a "culture of competency" is emerging that blurs the distinction between didactic courses, clinical courses, and supervision. Core Competencies in Counseling and Psychotherapy is an indispensable guide to this new way of learning and practice. It addresses the core competencies common to all the major psychotherapeutic orientations, and identifies, describes, and illustrates how each is utilized by expert therapists. Readers will be engaged throughout by Dr. Len Sperry's brief and highly readable style and will appreciate

As training and practice paradigms continue to shift and evolve, this book will prove to be a foundational text that includes specific intervention competencies for the most commonly practiced approaches today: cognitive behavior, brief dynamic, and solution-focused therapies.

Len Sperry, MD, PhD, is Professor of Mental Health Counseling at Florida Atlantic University and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. His 600 professional publications include refereed journal articles, book chapters, and 58 professional books including Highly Effective Therapy: Developing Essential Clinical Competencies in Counseling and Psychotherapy.