"Counseling and Psychotherapy: Theories and Interventions, Seventh Edition, presents a representative variety of theories and conceptual frameworks that are used across helping professionals to organize client case conceptualization and guide the path for the therapeutic transformation. Though there are hundreds of discreet therapies, they are offshoots of greater branches of therapeutic tradition tree. This text has been created by a diverse group of experts; they share their theoretical knowledge of different branches of theory, but also, their lived experience and culture intersectionalities. This text not only covers traditional counseling and psychotherapeutic theories, but also, theories that have emerged in response to multicultural and social justice work with clients. The greater a counselor or therapist's awareness of the strengths and possibilities inherent in numerous theoretical frames of reference, the greater the potential for understanding the uniqueness of a particular client and for developing the most effective treatment plan"--