Crisis Intervention: Promoting Resilience and Resolution in Troubled Times

Lennis G. Echterling, Jack Presbury, J. Edson McKee

“This text presents a compelling argument that victims of crisis and trauma can recover and grow into strong and healthy survivors.   The text’s emphasis on resilience is an important next step in the evolution of this helping technique.   Its detailed explanation of the techniques that utilize the strength of survivors is valuable for neophytes and experienced helpers alike.   The exercises and discussion questions presented move it from a theory based text into a valuable tool for skill development. This text is a very valuable addition to the literature on crisis intervention.”   Thomas W. Rueth, University of Dayton

Ideas and Tools for Brief Counseling

Jack H. Presbury, Lennis G. Echterling, J. Edson McKee

This practical book is the first of its kind to fully integrate theory and technique of brief counseling while presenting the relationship as the key to any successful intervention. All chapters include ideas and tools for brief counseling and case studies that take the reader step-by-step through the techniques of the first session and beyond. It is written to engage readers and invite them to participate in both self-exploration and discovery. For anyone interested in the advantages of brief counseling.

Thriving: A Manual for Students in the Helping Professions

Lennis G. Echterling, Eric Cowan, William F. Evans, A. Renee Staton, Grace Viere, J. Edson McKee, Jack Presbury, Anne L. Stewart.

As a supplement to introductory courses, Thriving! enables students to manage their personal and professional lives with practical advice and tools for making their graduate education as successful as possible.

Ariadne’s Thread: Case Studies in the Therapeutic Relationship

Eric W. Cowan

This casebook provides a personal account of the struggles a counselor encounters in everyday clinical practice. Each of the eight studies--thoughtfully detailed by Dr. Cowan from his own experience--illuminates the therapist/client relationship. Follow-up discussions tie each case and the therapist's technique to counseling theory and practice. A final conclusion links all cases and the related discourse together.

Book Chapters (Recent Sample):

• Briggs, M.K., Wasik, S. Z., & Staton, A.R. (in press). Motherhood and spirituality. In J. Chauvin (Ed.). Readings in counseling and spirituality.
• Briggs, M. K. & Rayle, A. D. (in press). The religiously and spiritually-sensitive counselor: Implications for competency V in Cashwell, C., &, Young, S. (Eds.). Spiritual and religious Values in counseling: A guide to competent practice. Alexandria , VA : ACA.
• Staton, A. R., & Cobb, H. C. (2005). Zai: A Hmong adolescent creates his own way. In J. Daley & C. LeCroy (Eds.), Case studies in child and adolescent treatment, (pp. 188-196). Belmont, CA: Brooks Cole.
• Wylie, M. L, & Echterling, L. G. (2002). Managing student emotional arousal. In Bach, R., & Lucal, B. (Eds.). Managing hostility in the classroom: A book of resources for teaching (pp. 21-27). Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.
• Echterling, L. G., & Wylie, M. L. (1999). In the public arena: Disaster as a socially constructed problem. In R. Gist & B. Lubin (Eds.), Response to disaster: Psychosocial, ecological, and community approaches (pp. 327-346). Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis.

Articles (Recent Sample):

• Staton, A. R., & Lucey. C. F. (2004). The family construction project. Journal of family psychotherapy, 15, 87-91.
• Briggs, M. K., Apple, K. J., & Aydlett, A. E. (2004). The role of spirituality in world crisis: Examining the events of 9/11. Counseling and values, 48, 174-182
• Staton, A. R., & Gilligan, T. D. (2003). Teaching school counselors and school psychologists to work collaboratively. Counselor education and supervision, 42, 162 – 176.
• Presbury, J., Staton, A. R., & Echterling, L. G. (2001). There’s one in every crowd: How counselors can help kids who just don’t get it. Journal for the professional counselor, 16, 3-12.
• Presbury, J., Echterling, L. G., & McKee, J. E. (1999). Supervision for inner vision: Solution-focused strategies. Counselor education and supervision, 39, 146-155.
• McKee, J. E., Smith, L. W., Hayes, B. G., Stewart, A., & Echterling, L. G. (1999). Rites and rituals in counselor education. Journal of Humanistic education and development, 38, 3-12.