Counseling Psychology
Student Organization
University of Kansas

 

Below are several sites that counselors may find to be useful when working with individuals from a variety of backgrounds...know of a helpful site that you'd like to see on this list? Contact CPSO!

Books

  • The Heart and Soul of Change: What Really Works in Therapy (you will likely be required to buy this for your Diagnosis class)
  • The Heroic Client (for info on client-directed therapy)
  • Stats for People who Hate Stats
  • CBT Basics and Beyond by Beck
  • Cognitive Therapy for Challenging Clients
  • David Burns: The Feeling Good Handbook
  • Jongsma and Peterson: The Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner
  • Oldham and Morris: The New Personality Self-Portrait
  • Barbara Kerr: Smart Boys / Smart Girls
  • Schiraldi: The PTSD Sourcebook
  • The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
  • APA publication manual. (Buy this if you already don’t have one…you will need it!)
  • Using SPSS for Windows and Macintosh: Analyzing and Understanding Data by Samuel Green and Neil Salkind. (If you are writing a thesis or doing anything with data, get this book.)

Web Sites

Others

  • Video library in Counseling Psychology Department
  • Newsletters and circulation letters from professors
  • Cognitive Processing Therapy manual from the VA to work with vets with PTSD
  • Hold on to class resources - you never know when you'll need them again!
  • The department's student handbook