Ivey/Ivey/Zalaquett's ESSENTIALS OF INTENTIONAL COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY IN A MULTICULTURAL WORLD, 4th EDITION, is your guide to counseling and psychotherapy in a stressed world. This reader-friendly text focuses on what you need to know to begin your journey to become an effective counselor or psychotherapist in a diverse world in dire need of well-prepared professionals. This edition retains the authors' microskills model, which revolutionized modern understanding of the counseling and therapy process by teaching vital interviewing skills step-by-step. This process breaks down counseling into manageable micro units and builds a bridge between theoretical understanding, learning the skills, and the practice of counseling. This edition includes a chapter on crisis counseling and effective information on relevant issues such as the pandemic, social inequities and eco-anxiety. The book includes video content, session transcripts and brief summaries of key theories.