On becoming a counselor : a basic guide for counselors and other helpers / Eugene Kennedy, PhD and Sara C. Charles, MD.

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.