The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Counseling and Psychotherapy is a two-volume source that traces theory and examines the beginnings of counseling and psychotherapy all the way to current trends and movements. This reference work draws together a team of international scholars that examine the global landscape of all the key counseling and psychotherapy theories and the theorists behind them while presenting them in context needed to understand their strengths and weaknesses.

Table of Contents

• Volume 1
• Editorial Board
• Reader's Guide
• List of Theorists
• About the Editor
• Contributors
• Introduction
• A
• Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
• Acceptance and Commitment Group Therapy
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• Ackerman, Nathan
• Ackerman Relational Approach
• Activity-Based Group Psychotherapy
• Acupuncture and Acupressure
• Adler, Alfred
• Adlerian Group Therapy
• Adlerian Therapy
• Advanced Integrative Therapy
• Adventure-Based Therapy
• Alexander Technique
• Analytical Psychology
• Animal Assisted Therapy
• Applied Behavior Analysis
• Archetypal Psychotherapy
• Aromatherapy
• Art Therapy
• Assimilative Psychotherapy Integration
• Attachment Group Therapy
• Attachment Theory and Attachment Therapies
• Attachment-Focused Family Therapy
• Attack Therapy
• Autogenic Training
• B
• Bandura, Albert
• Bateson, Gregory
• Beck, Aaron T.
• Behavior Modification
• Behavior Therapies: Overview
• Behavior Therapy
• Behavioral Activation
• Behavioral Group Therapy
• Berg, Insoo Kim
• Bibliotherapy
• Biodynamic Psychology
• Bioenergetic Analysis
• Biofeedback
• Biopsychosocial Model
• Body-Mind Centering®
• Body-Oriented Therapies: Overview
• Bodytalk
• Böszörményi-Nagy, Ivan
• Bowen, Murray
• Bowenian Therapy
• Brain Change Therapy
• Brainspotting
• Breathwork in Contemplative Psychotherapy
• Brief Solution-Based Group Therapy
• Brief Therapy
• C
• Cautious, Dangerous, and/or Illegal Practices: Overview
• Cerebral Electric Stimulation
• Chaos Theory
• Characteranalytical Vegetotherapy
• Chess Therapy
• Classical Conditioning
• Classical Psychoanalytic Approaches: Overview
• Client-Centered Counseling
• Co-Counseling
• Cognitive Analytic Therapy
• Cognitive Enhancement Therapy
• Cognitive Processing Therapy
• Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy
• Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy
• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies: Overview
• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
• Coherence Therapy
• Collaborative Therapy
• Common Factors in Therapy
• Communication Theory of Couples and Family Therapy
• Communication/Validation Family Therapy
• Complementary and Alternative Approaches: Overview
• Concentrative Movement Therapy
• Constructivist Therapies: Overview
• Constructivist Therapy
• Contemplative Psychotherapy
• Contemporary Psychodynamic-Based Therapies: Overview
• Contextual Therapy
• Conversion Therapy
• Core Energetics
• Core Process Psychotherapy
• Couple and Family Hypnotic Therapy
• Couples, Family, and Relational Models: Overview
• Creative Arts and Expressive Therapies: Overview
• Critical Incident Stress Management
• Cross-Cultural Counseling Theory
• Cyclical Psychodynamics
• D
• Dance Movement Therapy
• Daseinsanalysis
• De Shazer, Steve, and Insoo Kim Berg
• Developmental Constructivism
• Developmental Counseling and Therapy: Theory and Brain-Based Practice
• Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy
• Directive Therapy
• Drama Therapy
• E
• Eclecticism
• Ecological Counseling
• Ecotherapy
• EcoWellness
• Ego Psychology
• Ego State Therapy
• Ego-Oriented Therapies: Overview
• Ellis, Albert
• EMDR
• Emotional Freedom Techniques
• Emotion-Focused Family Therapy
• Emotion-Focused Therapy
• Energy Psychology
• Erickson, Milton H.
• Erickson-Derived or -Influenced Theories: Overview
• Ericksonian Therapy
• Evidence-Based Psychotherapy
• Existential Group Psychotherapy
• Existential Therapy
• Existential-Humanistic Therapies: Overview
• Experiential Family Therapy
• Experiential Psychotherapy
• Exposure and Response Prevention
• Exposure Therapy
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy
• Eye Movement Integration Therapy
• F
• Family Constellation Therapy
• Feedback-Informed Treatment
• Feldenkrais Method
• Feminist Family Therapy
• Feminist Psychoanalytic Therapy
• Feminist Therapy
• Fisch, Richard
• Focused Brief Group Therapy
• Focusing-Oriented Therapy
• Foundational Therapies: Overview
• Frankl, Viktor
• Freud, Sigmund
• Freudian Psychoanalysis
• Fry, William
• Functional Analytic Group Therapy
• Functional Analytic Psychotherapy
• G
• Gender Aware Therapy
• Gestalt Group Therapy
• Gestalt Therapy
• Glasser, William
• Gottman Method Couples Therapy
• Group Analysis
• Group Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories: Overview
• Growth Model
• Guided Imagery Therapy
• H
• Hakomi Therapy
• Haley, Jay
• Healing From The Body Level Up
• Healing Touch
• Heart Rate Variability
• HeartMath
• Hellerwork
• Herbal Medicine
• Holding Therapy
• Holotropic Breathwork
• Homeopathic Medicine and Counseling
• Horney, Karen
• Human Validation Process Model
• Humanistic Psychoanalysis of Erich Fromm
• Humanistic-Experiential Model
• Hypnotherapy
• I
• Identity Renegotiation Counseling
• Imago Relationship Therapy
• Impact Therapy
• Improvisational Therapy
• Individual Psychology
• Inner Child Therapy
• Integral Eye Movement Therapy
• Integral Psychotherapy
• Integrative Approaches: Overview
• Integrative Body Psychotherapy
• Integrative Family Therapy
• Integrative Forgiveness Psychotherapy
• Integrative Milieu Model
• Interaction Focused Therapy
• Internal Family Systems Model
• Interpersonal Group Therapy
• Interpersonal Integrative Group Therapy
• Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy
• Interpersonal Theory
• Intersubjective Group Psychotherapy
• Intersubjective-Systems Theory
• Volume 2
• J
• Jackson, Donald
• Jung, Carl Gustav
• Jungian Group Psychotherapy
• Jungian Therapy
• K
• Kelly, George
• Kernberg, Otto
• Klein, Melanie
• L
• Lacanian Group Therapy
• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
• Laing, R. D.
• Lazarus, Arnold
• Linehan, Marsha
• Logotherapy and Existential Analysis
• M
• Madanes, Cloe
• Mahler, Margaret
• Mahoney, Michael J.
• Maslow, Abraham
• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
• May, Rollo
• Meditation
• Meichenbaum, Donald
• Mentalization-Based Treatment
• Metaphors of Movement Therapy
• Method of Levels
• Milan School of Systemic Family Therapy
• Miller, Jean Baker
• Miller, William R.
• Mind–Body Therapy
• Mindfulness Techniques
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
• Minuchin, Salvador
• Modern Analytic Group Therapy
• Morita Therapy
• Motivational Interviewing
• Movement Therapies
• Multigenerational Family Therapy
• Multimodal Therapy
• Multisystemic Therapy
• Multitheoretical Psychotherapy
• Music Therapy
• N
• Narrative Family Therapy
• Narrative Therapy
• Nature-Guided Therapy
• Neo-Freudian Psychoanalysis
• Neurofeedback
• Neuro-Linguistic Programming
• Neurological and Psychophysiological Therapies: Overview
• Neuroprocessing
• Neuropsychoanalysis
• Non-Western Approaches
• O
• Object Relations Theory
• O'Hanlon, Bill
• Operant Conditioning
• Orgonomy
• Ortho-Bionomy
• Other Therapies: Overview
• P
• Palo Alto Group
• Parent–Child Interaction Therapy
• Pastoral Counseling
• Pavlov, Ivan
• Perls, Fritz
• Personal Construct Theory
• Person-Centered Counseling
• Phenomenological Therapy
• Play Therapy
• Poetry Therapy
• Positive Psychology
• Possibility Therapy
• Postural Integration
• Prayer and Affirmations
• Primal Integration
• Primal Therapy
• Process Groups
• Process Therapy
• Process-Oriented Psychology
• Processwork
• Prolonged Exposure Therapy
• Provocative Therapy
• Psychedelic Therapy
• Psychoanalysis
• Psychodrama
• Psychodynamic Family Therapy
• Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy
• Psychoeducational Groups
• Psychosocial Development, Theory of
• Psychosocial Genomics
• Psychosynthesis
• Pulsing
• R
• Radix
• Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
• Rational Living Therapy
• Reality Therapy
• Rebirthing
• Rebirthing-Breathwork
• Recovered Memory Therapy
• Re-Evaluation Counseling
• Regression Therapy
• Reich, Wilhelm
• Reichian Therapy
• Reiki
• Relational Group Psychotherapy
• Relational Psychoanalysis
• Relational-Cultural Theory
• Relationship Enhancement Therapy
• Reparative Therapy
• Response-Based Practice
• Rogers, Carl
• Rolfing
• Rollnick, Steve
• Rubenfeld Synergy
• S
• Satir, Virginia
• Schema Therapy
• Scream Therapy
• Self Psychology
• Self-Help Groups
• Self-Relations Psychotherapy
• Seligman, Martin
• Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
• Sexual Identity Therapy
• Sexual Minority Affirmative Therapy
• Sexual Orientation Change Efforts
• Shapiro, Francine
• Skinner, B. F.
• Social Cognitive Theory
• Solution-Focused Brief Family Therapy
• Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
• Somatic Experiencing
• Status Dynamic Psychotherapy
• Storyplay Therapy
• Strategic Family Therapy
• Strategic Therapy
• Structural Family Therapy
• Sullivan, Harry Stack
• Support Groups
• Supportive Psychotherapy
• Symbolic Experiential Family Therapy
• Systematic Desensitization
• Systemic Constellations
• Systemic Family Therapy
• Systems-Centered Group Therapy
• T
• Tavistock Group Training Approach
• Therapeutic Touch
• Training Groups
• Transactional Analysis
• Transformational Systemic Theory
• Transpersonal Psychology: Overview
• Transthoeretical Model
• Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
• U
• Unified Theory
• Unified Therapy
• Unifying Nonlinear Dynamical Biopsychosocial Systems Approach
• V
• Values Clarification
• Voice Dialogue
• W
• Wellness Counseling
• Whitaker, Carl
• White, Michael
• Wilderness Therapy
• Winnicott, Donald
• Writing Therapy
• Y
• Yalom, Irvin
• Yoga Movement Therapy
• Z
• Zimbardo, Philip George
• Appendices
• Appendix A: Chronology
• Appendix B: Resource Guide—Journals and Professional Associations
• Appendix C: Bibliography