Preventive Counseling

"Here is a book that should be required reading for all helping professionals. While lip service is often paid to preventive efforts, Conyne has shown how it can become an integral part of our everyday practice. The book is practical in showing concrete examples of cost-efffective preventive programs that work. It includes explanatory theories about how and why prevention works, and it stresses the research foundations for evaluation. All this and more in one readable package! This book could change the way you think about your work as a helping professional." -- John D. Krumboltz, Coauthor, Luck Is No Accident: Making the Most of Happenstance in Your Life and Career

"This is a must read for mental health professionals and students. The book provides a rich resource that clearly links the practice of counseling with systemic change. The book is very timely, sorely needed, and easy reading, filled with practical and personal examples. Bob Conyne does it again - a remarkable, insightful, and invaluable state-of-the-art book filled with information that captures the essence of prevention and empowerment. Outstanding resource - don't miss this one!

." -- Fred Bemak, Ed.D., Professor and Program Coordinator of the Counseling and Development Program at George Mason University

"Conyne has presented us with a scholarly, exciting, and highly readable book. Particularly fascinating is the way he shows us how to include a positive, preventive approach in virtually all individual, group, and community approaches to human change. In short this is a book for the all the human services professions. I could not recommend this definitive book more highly

." -- Allen E. Ivey, EdD, ABPP, Distinguished University Professor (Emeritus), University of Massachusetts, Amherst