1st Edition
Counseling Psychology and Optimal Human Functioning
Edited By W. Bruce Walsh
Copyright 2003
344 Pages
by
Routledge
338 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
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Counseling psychologists have always been vitally involved in promoting good health and preventing mental, physical, and social disorders. This volume focuses on how their efforts can foster and build optimal human strength and well-being. The chapters show how counseling psychology plays a major role in helping people make changes at home, at work, and in the community in ways that prevent... Read more
Contents: W.B. Walsh, Counseling Psychology and Optimal Human Functioning: An Introduction. S. Day, P. Rottinghaus, The Healthy Personality. J.A. Achter, D. Lubinski, Fostering Exceptional Development in Intellectually Talented Populations. F.H. Borgen, L.D. Lindley, Individuality and Optimal Human Functioning: Interests, Self-Efficacy, and Personality. W.B. Walsh, Person-Environment Psychology and Well-Being. F.T.L. Leong, P.T.P. Wong, Optimal Human Functioning From Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Cultural Competence as an Organizing Framework. D.W. Sue, M.G. Constantine, Optimal Human Functioning in People of Color in the United States. C.J. Gelso, S. Woodhouse, Toward a Positive Psychotherapy: Focus on Human Strength. A.H.S. Harris, C.E. Thoresen, Strength-Based Health Psychology: Counseling for Total Human Health. M.L. Savickas, Toward a Taxonomy of Human Strengths: Career Counseling's Contribution to Positive Psychology. P. Frazier, S. Oishi, M. Steger, Assessing Optimal Human Functioning. R.P. Bingham, Fostering Human Strength Through Diversity and Public Policy: A Counseling Psychologists' Perspective. S.J. Lopez, L.M. Edwards, J.L. Magyar-Moe, J.T. Pedrotti, J.A. Ryder, Fulfilling Its Promise: Counseling Psychology's Efforts to Understand and Promote Optimal Human Functioning.
Biography
W. Bruce Walsh
"The book includes several chapters that will be valuable in training counseling psychologists and researchers who are motivated to examine the efficacy of counseling psychology."
—CHOICE
