Award-winning educator and practitioner Dr. David Martin handles nuance and complexity with seasoned skill. His real-life examples cover beginning sessions, settings for therapy, ethics, various formats for therapy, cultural competence, and therapists' self-care. No-nonsense, clearly written analyses of theoretical approaches, including ways to reconcile "specific factors" and "common factors," provide a solid foundation for understanding the effectiveness of evocative empathy and how it can be used with other therapeutic practices.

The text is packaged with Observing Therapy, a DVD showing excerpts of the author conducting actual therapy sessions. This provocative learning tool demonstrates evocative empathy and can be used to practice responses to clients.

Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Cavanagh-Levitov, The Counseling Experience: A Theoretical and Practical Approach, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577661894); Kerr, Becoming a Therapist: A Workbook for Personal Exploration (ISBN 9781577661313); Levitov-Fall, Translating Theory Into Practice: A Student Guide to Counseling Practicum and Internship (ISBN 9781577665601); Meier-Davis, The Elements of Counseling, Eighth Edition (ISBN 9781478638506); and Todd-Bohart, Foundations of Clinical and Counseling Psychology, Fourth Edition (ISBN 9781577664109).