This brief, practical, nuts and bolts primer of counseling covers the basic elements of counseling in an abbreviated outline format. Meier presents information that is essential for beginning counselors to know and for experienced counselors to remember, including what counseling is as well as what it is not. This handy reference focuses on relationship building, the counseling process, and self-exploration, the foundation upon which further intervention is laid. This book is unique in that it is not intended to be the primary text for a course, but is rather a quick reference for both counselors in training and practitioners, designed to give them immediate access to information without having to read pages of commentary.