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	Professional Counseling Excellence through Leadership and Advocacy	0	Edward Wahesh	Professional Counseling Excellence through Leadership and AdvocacyBook Being Reviewed:Barrio Minton, C., Chang, C., Dixon, A., Myers, J., Sweeney, T. (2011). Professional counseling excellence through leadership and advocacy. New York, NY: Routledge.Reviewer:Edward WaheshCurricular Areas:Counselor Education, Professional IdentitySubject Headings:Social justiceReview:There are few resources available for professional counselors and counselor educators to access on leadership and advocacy within the counseling profession. Several sources, including the American Counseling Association (ACA), Chi Sigma Iota, and the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Programs (CACREP), have presented competencies and principles pertaining to leadership and advocacy, but each comes up short in describing how these concepts can be incorporated into the training and practice of professional counseling. Professional Counseling Excellence through Leadership and Advocacy (2011) edited by Chang, Barrio Minton, Dixon, Myers, and Sweeney, fills this gap by providing a clear vision for the training and practice of leadership and advocacy for the profession. Professional Counseling Excellence through Leadership and Advocacy is organized into four sections that present the foundations, roles, and future directions of leadership and advocacy in counseling. A central theme in the book is the importance of practicing leadership and advocacy in an intentional manner, by thoughtfully reflecting on relevant theory and context before engaging in action. This theme comes across in the structure and content areas of the book. Before proposing action steps, the historical and present context of leadership and advocacy within the professional are presented. Roles for counselor educators and counselors to engage in are examined within the framework of available guiding documents, research and relevant theory. The final section of the book concludes by providing concrete steps that can be taken to advance leadership and advocacy within all facets of the profession. Endorsed by Chi Sigma Iota, the vision and framework outlined in this text make it an excellent addition to any counselor or counselor educator’s bookshelf. However, the engaging nature of the book makes it unlikely that it will spend much time on the shelf. Counselor educators will benefit from the insights given on how leadership and advocacy preparation can be infused across the curriculum and enriched by faculty mentoring. Professional counselors will increase their awareness of how critical these concepts are to their everyday practice. They will learn how to become effective advocates and leaders for their clients, supervisees, and communities. This text can be assigned reading for doctoral students, as it provides an insightful look at how the diverse roles of the counselor educator (i.e., supervisor, researcher, and counselor) all are related to leadership and advocacy. Counselor trainees will greatly profit from the exploration of the history and current context of the profession, which underline how leadership and advocacy are essential and interconnected roles for counselors. More importantly, beginning counselors will be exposed to a model of leadership and advocacy designed specifically for them in mind. Finally, the exercises and reflection questions at the conclusion of each chapter make this text a no brainer for Chi Sigma Iota members to use during chapter leadership trainings, professional development workshops, or as part of general membership meetings. CSI members can utilize the competencies described in the book as a foundation to establish their own professional leadership and advocacy goals.Professional Counseling Excellence through Leadership and Advocacy (2011, October) is available from Routledge – 429 pages; Hardback: 978-0-415-89072-4: $44.95. Order through Routledge online to save 10% and receive free shipping on orders over $30. by Edward Wahesh Wednesday, September 24, 2014
	Treating Those with Mental Disorders: A Comprehensive Approach...	0	Matthew J. Paylo	Treating those with mental disorders: A comprehensive approach to case conceptualization and treatment.Citation:Kress, V. E., & Paylo, M. J. (2015). Treating those with mental disorders: A comprehensive approach to case conceptualization and treatment. Columbus, Ohio: Pearson. Reviewer: Matthew Paylo Category:Book by CSI author Genre: Professional CACREP Core Area:Professional orientation & ethical practice Subject Headings: Anxiety disorders Bipolar disorder Depression Eating disorders Learning disorder Multicultural/cross-cultural issues Personality disorders PTSD Self-injurious behavior Substance abuse-alcohol Substance abuse-drugs Review: Treating Mental Disorders: A strength-based, comprehensive approach to case conceptualization and treatment planning offers students in counseling, social work, psychology, and marriage and family therapy programs with a strength-based, comprehensive framework for conceptualizing and treating clients who have mental disorders. The text provides updated information consistent with changes in the DSM-5. This textbook is consistent with the 2009 CACREP standards’ emphasis upon thorough training in evidence-based treatment practices. Treating Mental Disorders has a distinct focus upon enhancing counselors’ case conceptualization and treatment planning skills, which are often cited as underdeveloped in neophyte counselors.Treating Mental Disorders is written in a way that is easy to read and applicable to practice settings. It is also unique in the way that it explores the various issues that counselors face in practice (e.g., managed-care systems, reimbursement, etc.), and Voices from the Trenches sections are included that provide clinician perspectives. This text also reviews best practices for treatment planning and case conceptualization. The authors developed the “I-CAN-START” model for case conceptualization and treatment planning, which has a special focus upon client strengths and cultural context. Each chapter begins with a case study that illustrates a disorder covered within the chapter to facilitate a more comprehensive conceptualization of the diagnosis. The I-CAN-START model is applied to each case study within the chapters to emphasize the core components of the model and provide an example for students. Chapters also contain Creative Toolbox and Clinical Toolbox activities that are evidence-based and structured in a way that lends them to immediate use in practice. The chapters follow a consistent format to facilitate ease of use. Appendices are also included that provide assessment measures and other helpful tools to explore client strengths and resources in treatment. by Matthew J. Paylo Friday, August 29, 2014
	Integrating Spirituality and Religion	1	Craig S. Cashwell	Thanks Craig and Scott. This looks like a great book for a spirituality and religion counseling course. It is a topic that doesn't always get the attention it deserves. It is not always offered in counseling programs, but this text seems to provide a great framework for developing an elective course around it! by Cheryl P. Wolf Saturday, August 23, 2014
	Grief Reflection: A Quiet Book of Comfort	0	Hermina C. Baker	Grief reflection: A quiet book of comfortCitation:Baker, B. (2011). Grief reflection: A quiet book of comfort. Bloomington, IN: Author House.Reviewer: Hermina Baker Category:Book by CSI author Genre: OtherCACREP Core Area:Human growth and development, Helping relationships Subject Headings: Grief & loss Review:Separations and loss are normal experiences over the life span. Despite the universality of the experience of loss, many know little about the grieving process and the journey of recovery. In this compassionate and hopeful book, "Grief Reflections: A Quiet Book of Comfort", Bobbie Baker offers insight and perspectives on grief as it relates to the loss of a loved one. The aim of the book is to provide comfort and hope to those who are currently grieving. Bobbie's knowledge and professional experience with bereavement is interwoven throughout this beautifully composed book. The content is not technical or theoretical in nature; instead, Bobbie speaks directly to the bereaved in a practical and sensitive manner. Structurally, the book contains one-page of inspirational quotes and then gentle and reassuring insights and reflections. This format allows the individual to read as long as they wish, without feeling pressure or overwhelmed to read sequentially. Individuals can freely move to the sections that seem most applicable and helpful to their current situation, often coming back to skipped sections at a later time. The hope of the book is that individuals feel understood and validated as they journey through their own process of grief. "Grief Reflections: A Quiet Book of Comfort" can be ordered through www.authorhouse.com, and www.amazon.com.For additional information, please visit www.griefreflections.com.Originally posted on 9/19/2012 at csi-net.org by Hermina C. Baker Saturday, August 23, 2014
	Individual and Family Stress and Crises	0	Janice G. Weber	Individual and family stress and crisesCitation:Weber, J. G. (2011). Individual and family stress and crises. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. Reviewer:Janice G. Weber, Ph.D., CFLE, CFCS, Associate Professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2011 Category:Book by CSI author Genre:OtherCACREP Core Area:Helping relationships CACREP Specialty Area:Counselor education and supervision Subject Headings:Family dynamics, Grief & loss Review:This comprehensive textbook provides coverage of both individual and family conceptual models of stress and crisis as well as the application of the models to crisis management. Divided into three parts, the book moves readers from historical background and definitions to theoretical models to practical application of the models for crisis management. In Part I (chapters 1 and 2), the multidisciplinary background of stress theory is illustrated with parallel timelines of the development of both individual and family stress theory. Because of the importance of consistent definitions of constructs to both research and practice, chapter 2 presents definitions of the basic theoretical constructs including multiple terms used for the same construct. Part II (chapters 3-9) provides detailed analyses of individual and family stress models, including a comparison of models presented in table form. In addition, the book contains a vignette which is used as the basis of application of each conceptual model to a case, preparing students to complete exercises promoting realistic, hands-on experience with the material. Part III (chapters 10 and 11) presents the history and practice of crisis management. Discussions of prevention as well as intervention are included. Each chapter concludes with a summary and citations leading readers to publications by the originators of content discussed. The book includes multiple tables and figures for visual learners; an index provides easy access to key concepts in the text. Instructors normally find that they must supplement their core texts to include crisis management in a one way or another, e.g., to provide a family focus to a text on crisis management, to provide interventions to texts focusing on theory and research, or to augment a single theoretical perspective. This book provides all of these within its covers and is particularly useful for courses for students interested in obtaining licensing as professional counselors or certification as family life educators. Readers ranging from master's candidates to undergraduates will encounter an excellent balance of theory/research, hands-on applications, and intervention strategies.Originally posted on 10/5/2011 at csi-net.org by Janice G. Weber Saturday, August 23, 2014
	The Wellness Cube Model: An Adlerian-Based...	0	Thomas W. Foster	The Wellness Cube Model: An Adlerian-Based Academic Intervention Model for Promoting Wellness Citation: Foster, T. (2010). The Wellness Cube Model: An Adlerian-Based Academic Intervention Model for Promoting Wellness. Reviewer: Thomas Foster, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Loyola University, New Orleans Category: CD by CSI author Genre: Professional CACREP Core Area: Professional orientation and ethical practice, Human growth and development CACREP Specialty Area: Counselor education and supervision Subject Headings: College, Wellness Review: Graduate school often presents many academic and personal challenges for students. Sometimes can result in student impairment and burnout. The Wellness Cube Model (WCM), an Adlerian-based academic intervention model, serves to infuse wellness into a master’s-level counseling program. Counseling faculty can use this model to integrate wellness into their course work and encourage students to make healthy life choices that can increase wellness and reduce stress levels and impairment. The WCM is an interactive model found online; it possesses four dimensions: (a) counseling courses; (b) wellness factors, taken from the IS-Wel model; (c) pre-constructed content assignments and experiential exercises; and (d) Adlerian principles. The WCM can be thought of as a "reservoir" for pre-constructed content assignments and experiential exercises related to wellness; these assignments and exercises are categorized under specific counseling courses and wellness factors, as seen on the model. Cross marks (X) on the face of the WCM indicate that a wellness assignment or exercise exists for a specific course and wellness factor. For example, on the WCM, the square intersecting the row labeled "Ethics" and the column labeled "Thinking" lies a cross mark, tells the user that an assignment or exercise related to the wellness factor Thinking exists specifically for the Ethics course. By clicking on this, the user will open a file containing relevant assignment and/or exercise options. Counseling faculty and clinical supervisors may use the WCM to introduce wellness to their students and supervisees. Students who wish to pursue wellness independently may also complete the assignments and exercises. Faculty may apply the WCM to a specific counseling course or to an entire counseling program, depending on the overall interest of the department. In addition, the WCM is an evolving model. Any faculty member or clinical supervisor who wishes to contribute an Adlerian-based wellness assignment or exercise to the WCM may do so; the author has placed instructions for how to do this within the WCM. Please note that, as of 2018, the WCM is no longer being updated. Originally posted on 7/24/2010 at csi-net.org. by Thomas W. Foster Saturday, August 23, 2014
	Foundations of Guidance	0	Vicentita M. Cervera	Foundations of guidanceCitation:Cervera, V. (2009). Foundations of guidance. Quezon City, PI: Great Books Publishing.Reviewer:Vicentita CerveraCategory:The Guidance Act of 2004Genre:ProfessionalCACREP Core Area:Professional CounselingCACREP Specialty Area:Guidance and CounselingSubject Headings:Counseling in the PhillippinesReview:The book is a benchmark work on guidance and counseling in the Philippines, focusing on the foundations of guidance as practiced in the country. The author wrote the book to recognize and honor the men and women who gave their time, effort, and resources from the origins of the profession up to its blossoming with the passage of Republic Act 9258, otherwise known as "The Guidance Act of 2004." The field of guidance and counseling--as Filipino counselors know the field today--owes its existence to their vision.The first chapter discusses the meaning and practice of guidance and counseling--first, from how it has been defined according to the review of 30 years of empirical research and national standards made by Borders and Drury (1992) and spanning to how it has been defined by Republic Act 9258. That is the legal basis of the practice of the profession in the Philippines. The chapter also makes a distinction of the profession from psychology and human resources development.The book traces the philosophical foundations of guidance from the ethnological and philosophical foundation of the profession as practiced in the Philippines by Filipinos. Starting with the so-called matrix of the Filipino culture, it proceeds to the general definition of philosophy and the philosophy of guidance and then to ethnophilosophy as defined and discussed by Filipino philosophers. To understand philosophical foundations of guidance and counseling, the author unearths the historical foundations dating back to pre-Spanish Philippines then proceeding through the 355 years of colonial rule by Spaniards, the 50 years of colonial rule by Americans, and the more than 50 years of self-rule as a republic.The book ends with a chapter on the future of guidance and counseling as a profession in the Philippines, a member-country of the ASEAN. It poses a powerful question: Will this membership result in a philosophy of career guidance that helps young Filipinos participate and look to a future of a single, free-trade area by 2015 in a region of 500 million people?Originally posted on 7/12/2010 at csi-net.org by Vicentita M. Cervera Saturday, August 23, 2014
	Hypnosis: Uncovering Your Internal Resources	0	Kathleen M. Connolly	Hypnosis: Uncovering Your Internal ResourcesCitation:Connolly, K. (2007). Hypnosis: Uncovering Your Internal Resources. Signature Media Productions, LLC (Clinical Hypnosis CDs).Reviewer:Kathleen M. Connolly, PhD, LPCCategory:CD by CSI authorGenre:Self-HelpCACREP Core Area:Human growth and developmentCACREP Specialty Area:Clinical mental health counselingSubject Headings:WellnessReview:Dr. Kathleen Connolly teamed up with Signature Media Productions to produce four clinical hypnosis CDs. "Hypnosis: Uncovering Your Internal Resources" is a powerful series including the topics of managing stress, improving sleep, becoming a non-smoker, and managing a healthy weight. Each of the four CDs provides users with information about clinical hypnosis along with a 15-20 minute hypnosis session with new-age background music. The approach is primarily cognitive with direct and indirect suggestions to support self-efficacy, health, and wellness. This resource introduces hypnosis to users--along with cognitive, emotional, and behavioral support--to help them begin to make the changes they desire. For more information visit www.acumeans.com. Dr. Connolly is certified in clinical hypnosis by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH), the flagship organization for clinical hypnosis practice, training, and research. Membership is reserved for licensed health care practitioners only. Dr. Connolly is the founder of Acumeans, Inc. in Charlotte, NC, a private practice offering psychological counseling, career development, and corporate and business consulting/coaching.Originally posted on 6/10/2010 at csi-net.org by Kathleen M. Connolly Saturday, August 23, 2014
	Adjusting to Divorce: Simple Steps Parents Can Take...	0	Percival G. Ricketts	Adjusting to Divorce: Simple Steps Parents Can Take to Help Themselves & Their Children Citation:Ricketts, P. (2009). Adjusting to Divorce: Simple Steps Parents Can Take to Help Themselves & Their Children. LC Studios, Pembroke Pines, Florida Author: Percy Ricketts Category:DVD or Training Video by CSI author Genre:Self-Help CACREP Core Area:Helping relationships CACREP Specialty Area:Marriage, couple and family counseling Subject Headings:Divorce Review:Each year, over one million couples divorce in the United States and over one million children are affected. Many adults continue to experience major difficulties several years after the divorce, which prevents them from moving forward appropriately with their lives. For some children, the pain and the trauma likewise affects them throughout their lives. Although there are many steps that parents can take that could make adjusting to this life-altering process much easier for them and for their children, they often receive no help following divorce, and their children receive no help either. In this 20-minute DVD, Dr. Percy Ricketts, psychotherapist and parenting consultant, provides simple steps that parents can take to make adjusting to divorce much easier for themselves and for their children. This DVD is available at www.divorceclass.info and at www.amazon.com.Originally posted on 3/3/2010 at csi-net.org by Percival G. Ricketts Saturday, August 23, 2014
	Conversations with Jeremiah on the Magic of Counseling	0	Geoffrey G. Yager	Conversations with Jeremiah on the Magic of CounselingCitation:Yager, G. (2009). Conversations with Jeremiah on the Magic of Counseling. Akron, OH: Invincible Press.Author:Geoffrey YagerGenre:ProfessionalCACREP Core Area:Professional orientation and ethical practice, Helping relationshipsCACREP Specialty Area:School counseling, Clinical mental health counseling, Counselor education and supervisionSubject Headings:Multicultural/cross-cultural issues,Relationships,WellnessReview:Conversations with Jeremiah on the Magic of Counseling describes the weekly meetings of two young graduate counseling students with a "mysterious mentor” over the course of an academic year. The mentor answers content questions with illustrative stories to the occasional bewilderment but always to the delight of his two protégées. This book is unique in its organization, presentation, and style. It is not a "typical textbook” nor is it a trade book. It is uniquely and purposefully conversational and casual in style. It does not easily fit into a category.Since many students find traditional texts, even counseling texts, too formal, the driving force behind this manuscript was an effort to address highly important counseling concepts through an engaging "story format.” It is hoped that this unorthodox approach to a counseling text is just what is needed to maintain the interest and excitement of the students in counseling and therapy skills courses. In exploring these counseling-related stories, a reader creates vivid images, characters, and events for each tale, and the specifics elements of each are based on our own experiences, beliefs, and understandings. The completed story is an event in our own minds: a unique and personal product. This individually-developed creation will inevitably be retained long after any alternative method of information delivery (e.g., a lecture or a written essay). The use of a story tends to allow the lessons to "sneak by” the listener’s defenses, flying under the typical evaluative "radar” and obtaining access to learning channels in the listener that go well beyond rational and logical review. This text contains a set of 30 stories addressing the crucial components of a counseling relationship. The individual stories (and lectures) are weaved together by an overarching story involving Jeremiah, the storyteller, and his two students, Emma and Michael. This connecting tale provides an opportunity to emphasize and reinforce particularly important principles. The two students, in essence, ask the questions that would be generated by any student. The topics covered are those most commonly voiced by students during early experience with actual clients. Although designed for students, experienced counselors in all settings (e.g., schools, mental health, rehabilitation, employment, and forensics) will find that this book provides an excellent opportunity to revisit the basic, human elements that led them to become invested in counseling and in the client-counselor relationship. Since the core elements of the relationship don’t change over time, the reminders of core skills imbedded in this book will continue to be fresh even with seasoned practitioners. What is Jeremiah’s conceptual or theoretical framework? He doesn’t directly identify a specific theoretical approach, but it becomes clear in reading his thoughts throughout the book that he is a relationship-oriented counselor with a tendency to conceptualize using a cognitive-behavioral understanding. There is nothing in what Jeremiah advocates for counseling practice that would draw immediate criticism and disagreement from therapists with widely divergent theoretical orientations. Originally posted on 11/1/2009 at csi-net.org by Geoffrey G. Yager Saturday, August 23, 2014
	The Accountable School Counselor	0	Martin H. Ritchie	The Accountable School CounselorCitation:Loesch, L.C., & Ritchie, M.H. (2009). The Accountable School Counselor, 2nd ed. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. ISBN 9781416403807Author:Martin Ritchie, Ed.D., University of ToledoGenre:ProfessionalCACREP Core Area:Research and program evaluationCACREP Specialty Area:School counselingSubject Headings:Elementary school, High school, Middle schoolReview:As its title suggests, this book details how school counselors can document student outcomes and improve their accountability. The text explains the need for accountability, how to collect data, how to present the data and to whom. It describes common accountability techniques that can br easily used in schools. Detailed examples of how to collect accountability data are given for each component of the delivery system in the ASCA National Model, including school guidance curriculum, individual student planning, responsive services, and system support. A highlight of the second edition is an expanded chapter on program evaluation. Step-by-step suggestions for implementing a systematic accountability plan are given. This is written as a hands-on guide for practicing and soon-to-be school counselors to help them more effectively document the effects of their programs and services on student learning and development. It follows the ASCA National Model and presents ideas for demonstrating student learning outcomes consistent with the new CACREP standards. Every chapter includes thoughtful discussion questions and hands-on activities to help the reader apply key concepts and techniques. In addition, many examples of forms, charts, and tables are provided that can be used to document school counselor accountability.Originally posted on 11/1/2009 at csi-net.org by Martin H. Ritchie Saturday, August 23, 2014
	The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences	0	Janice M. Holden	The handbook of near-death experiences: Thirty years of investigationCitation:Holden, J. M., Greyson, B., & James, D. (Eds.). (2009). The handbook of near-death experiences: Thirty years of investigation. Santa Barbara,CA: ABC-CLIO.Author:Janice Holden Genre:Professional CACREP Core Area:Social and cultural diversity, Human growth and development CACREP Specialty Area:School counseling, Marriage, couple and family counseling, Clinical mental health counseling Subject Headings:College, Elementary school, Female lifespan development, Grief & loss, High school, Male lifespan development ,Middle school, Relationships, Spiritual journey, Wellness Review:This one source provides virtually anything empirically based that a health professional, educator, researcher, experiencer, or member of the public would need to know about near-death experiences (NDEs). Research in this field has been ongoing since the phenomenon came into widespread professional and public awareness in 1975. In each chapter of this book, a leading NDE scholar worldwide authored or co-authored a comprehensive, critical review of all research published so far on a subtopic of NDEs: the field of near-death studies, pleasurable NDEs, distressing NDEs, children’s and adolescents’ NDEs, characteristics of people who have had near-death experiences, non-Western NDEs, world religions and NDEs, veridical perception in NDEs, explanatory models for NDEs, and practical applications of research on NDEs.Originally posted on 11/9/2009 at csi-net.org by Janice M. Holden Saturday, August 23, 2014
	Adlerian Counseling and Psychotherapy	0	Thomas J. Sweeney	Adlerian counseling and psychotherapy: A practitioner’s approach Citation:Sweeney, T.J. (2009). Adlerian counseling and psychotherapy: A practitioner’s approach. (5th ed.). New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. Author: Tom Sweeney Category:Book by CSI author Genre:Professional CACREP Core Area:Human growth and development, Career development, Helping relationships, Group work, Assessment CACREP Specialty Area:Career counseling, School counseling, Marriage, couple and family counseling, Clinical mental health counseling, Counselor education and supervision Subject Headings:Aging, Divorce, Elementary school, Female lifespan development, Family dynamics, High school, Male lifespan development, Middle school, Multicultural/cross-cultural issues, Relationships, Spiritual journey, Spiritual practice, Social justice, Wellness Review:This book was written principally with practitioners in mind. Like most practitioners, I dutifully learned about all the major theories of personality and learning. It wasn’t until I had the privilege of both hearing and watching Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs teach and demonstrate the Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler that I became convinced that practitioners of all helping disciplines can benefit from their insights and methods. Practitioners in all settings who work with persons across the life span already use this approach quite successfully. It is also applied successfully, however, by parents, teachers, paraprofessionals, and laypeople in homes, businesses, and educational settings. Critical reviews of the earlier editions reported them to be useful, concise overviews of the theory and practice of what Adler called his Individual Psychology. For this fifth edition, every effort has been made to retain these characteristics while adding to, revising, and updating the material. My goal has been to provide an overview with practical applications rather than an exhaustive review of each topic. References to more thorough treatments of each topic are found throughout the book. As with the earlier editions, applications to children, adults, individuals, couples, and groups across the life span are presented. Career-style counseling is still a unique contribution fitting Adler’s premise that work is an essential life task. More will be found in this edition related to early recollections and life style as a means to second order change in clients. Diagnosis, which was not a part of the earlier editions, is presented by an Adlerian practitioner who demonstrates how DSM can be used for Adlerian outcomes. At the same time, a completely new chapter on our empirically based wellness models helps fortify Adler’s holism and emphasis on using social interest as a means to individual and societal well being. Both Adler’s and Dreikurs’ works reflect the values consistent with today’s need for greater respect of differences as well as access, equity, and inclusiveness of all people to all opportunities of a free society. Since the last edition of this work is available in Korean and Chinese, some of my international contacts suggest that a world view that respects individuals while engendering cooperation among people is on the rise. One need not be an "Adlerian” to use and benefit from the ideas and methods described in this book. I believe more than ever, however, that it is within the totality of this approach that the greatest good can be achieved. It is essential for me to stay true to the philosophy and values espoused by Dreikurs even as I offer innovations within Adler’s psychology. Adler indicated that he was not bound by his own creation. To be an Adlerian, however, is to embrace its emphasis upon the desired outcomes of optimal social interest and well being for the benefit of individuals and society as a whole. My hope is that this book will help more practitioners achieve these lofty goals in their work. To purchase copies of this work, please do so through the CSI Shopping Mall, Amazon.com and CSI will receive a rebate! Thank you!Originally posted on 9/14/2009 at csi-net.org by Thomas J. Sweeney Saturday, August 23, 2014