This book has a fair amount of very useful information in it, with only a bit too much reliance on jargon and buzzwords. It is probably a useful text for learning the basics of psychotherapy.The problem is, it's poorly written. There are far too many typos of the sort found on page 15, "...(arising from a rejecting an (rather than AND) impoverished primary caregiver-child relationship)." Or on page 46, "...the provision of effective therapy is likely to increase as individual countries and the world becomes (rather than become) increasingly global and multicultural." Or page 49, "This section will briefly introduce, strategic, structural, and solution-focused theories..." (There should be no comma after "introduce".) Or in the table on page 62, "cathart" is not a word, so cannot be used as the verb form of "catharsis". Or page 73, "...highlighting the and general themes..." (Either the word "specific" has been left out, or the word "and" is superfluous.) Or on page 109, where the non-word "self-depreciating" is used rather than the word "self-deprecating", which is clearly what was intended. Or on page 162, "Our ability to choose a response creates and our freedom." (I'm not entirely sure what was intended here, which makes it one of the most egregious errors; it may be that the word "and" was simply superfluous, or it may be that a secondary verb in addition to "creates" was omitted, or it may be that a secondary direct object in addition to "our freedom" was omitted. There's just no telling.) Or, back to simple grammatical errors, on page 176, we have "Several tool..." rather than "tools". On page 182, we have "...several change strategies may applied..." rather than BE applied. And on page 185, "...consider asking the person you are attracted to do something with you..." rather than "attracted to, to do something...". And on page 210 (in table 9.4) we have "...relationships in the client's life maybe latent signs..." rather than "MAY BE". Spanning pages 222 and 223, we have "Sometimes social contact cannot be avoided. For example, a client successfully treated for chronic cannot be avoided. For example, a client successfully treated for chronic anxiety symptoms took a position in the hospital where the therapist worked." On page 231, we have "As clients are better able to relax deliberately, they are able to relax more selectively and more quickly in stressful and competitive." (The word "situations", presumably, was omitted.) On page 251 we have "...that result in their feeling a lack social support..." (The word "of" is omitted.) On page 291, in table 12.5, we have "Repeated sets of conscious lateral eye movements (like those sleep)." (The word "in" is omitted.) On page 292, we have "Approximately one-third to one-half of the population will or has experienced a panic attack..." (Rather than "will experience or has experienced".) On page 309, we have "One of the tenants of 12-step fellowships..." (A "tenant" is a person renting an apartment. A "tenet" is the word we're looking for here.) On page 336, we have "Their brains and bodies are vulnerable to stress so they are urgently need to develop and strengthen..." Not entirely sure what was intended here, but I think it was simply a case of the word "are" being superfluous.) On page 342, we again have a confusion of the words "tenant" and "tenet" ("Central tenants of narrative therapy...") On page 356, we have the words "will" and "that" transposed ("...dynamics will that create desired change...") On page 359, there's a missing space between the words "others" and "who" ("...may hold toward otherswho are not present...").Some of these errors are more critical than others; any one or two of them might have been overlooked. But the sheer volume of sloppiness here wouldn't even be acceptable in a mass-market paperback; in a $50 textbook, it's just unforgivable.