Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1 Engagement in Counseling 1 -- Georgiana Shick Tryon -- 2 Client Expectations About Counseling 27 -- Ann Westcot Barich -- 3 Understanding Client Resistance in Therapy: Implications -- From Research on the Counseling Process 66 -- James R. Mahalik -- 4 The Working Alliance: A Flagship for the -- "Scientist-Practitioner" Model in Psychotherapy 81 -- Michael J. Constantino, Louis G. Castonguay, and Alexander J. Schut -- 5 The Learning Alliance of Supervision: -- Research to Practice 132 -- Elizabeth Holloway and Pilar Gonzalez-Doupe -- 6 Transference, Interpretation, and Insight: -- A Research-Practice Model 166 -- Dennis M. Kivlighan, Jr. -- 7 Empathy 197 -- Changming Duan, Teresa B. Rose, and Rebecca A. Kraatz -- 8 Therapist Techniques 232 -- Elizabeth Nutt Williams -- 9 Stages of Counseling and Therapy: An Examination -- of Complementarity and the Working Alliance 265 -- Terence J. G. Tracey -- 10 Social Influence in Counseling: Application -- of the Elaboration Likelihood Model to Counseling 298 -- Martin Heesacker and Marnie G. Shanbhag -- 11 Session Evaluation and the Session -- Evaluation Questionnaire 325 -- William B. Stiles, Lisa E. Gordon, and James A. Lani -- 12 The Termination of Psychotherapy: What Research Tells Us -- About the Process of Ending Treatment 344 -- Charles J. Gelso and Susan S. Woodhouse.