When You Don't Know Where to Turn / A Self-Diagnosing Guide to Counseling and Therapy

This practical, step-by-step manual helps readers assess personal problems and select counseling or therapy options by matching treatment approaches to individual needs. It critiques diagnostic inflation and the arbitrary grouping of symptoms into labelled disorders, notes the growing dominance of brief cognitive-behavioral methods and insurance-driven standardization, and emphasizes the importance of considering problem type, readiness to change, learning ability, life situation, finances, and available time. The text offers consumer-oriented guidance for choosing clinicians and therapies suited to distinct problems rather than relying on one-size-fits-all prescriptions.