Competency-Based Counseling: Building on Client Strengths

This book demonstrates how counselors can help people to use the resources they already have to address issues that come up in their lives. The authors show that most people have within themselves the strengths and resources positively to confront the issues that trouble their lives. The counseling method elicits resiliency, assets, and successful experiences from the client's past to foster positive change in the present. Case studies are included, drawn especially from marriage and family counseling.