Reviews for Counseling strategies and interventions

The average rating for Counseling strategies and interventions based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-05-30 00:00:00 Jjj Jjjj Reeducation book #3. Not as good as "Skills and Strategies...," although it is simpler to read and more accessible. There is some information here that wasn't really covered in "Skills and Strategies," or not in the same way, but mostly they overlap and "Skills and Strategies" goes into a lot more detail, most of which is actually useful. I guess I would say that "Skills and Strategies" analyzes what the therapist should do in a session on a micro level, whereas "Counseling Strategies is more macro and superficial. Additionally, the copy I'm reading is a very old edition and somewhat dated (one of the disadvantages of trying to do this in Israel). Maybe subsequent editions are better; I have no way of knowing.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-01-05 00:00:00 Shelley Biscaino I wanted to like this book, I really did. But I couldn't turn off my editing brain the whole time. First, the afterword about compositing of characters and rearranging of the actual timeline should really have been a preface so the reader already knows that we're being shown essentially staged reenactments. Second, I wish the book had been structured chronologically, rather than loosely grouped into chapters that each vaguely centered a different inmate-- the result was that several anecdotes were told multiple times and the narrative seemed jumbled. Maybe it's just that in 2017 we have multiple seasons of OITNB with nuanced portrayals of women inmates as complex humans, but I also felt like the portrayals of the women in this book (copyright 2001) seemed flat and sometimes cartoonish. I'm also sort of the choir in this case, in that I'm all for arts and education programs in prisons, so maybe the stories here aren't necessarily aimed at me. So it wasn't unpleasant, but I wanted more from the book than what I got, I guess. (Also, Shakespeare doesn't seem to feature a whole hell of a lot, given the title, but that's as may be)