"This book is a core text for the counseling theories course which is offered in departments of psychology, counseling, and mental health, in general. It is a required, foundational course, which lays the groundwork for the rest of the curriculum in most mental health programs. The Ivey book is known for having the deepest integration of a multicultural framework among all other theories books. The book covers all the basic theories of counseling...

Many years ago, the color purple was available only to a privileged few because the process was very complicated and expensive. Then in 1856, a boy named William Henry Perkin was testing a hypothesis about a cure for malaria and found that his experiment resulted in something else--something vivid and rare for the times: synthetic purple. Perkin, a pioneer of the modern scientific method, made numerous advances possible, including canned food and...