Helping Skills: Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action, 6th Edition (Paperback)

Helping Skills: Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action, 6th Edition (Paperback)

This sixth edition of the seminal textbook offers a refined model for aspiring helping professionals to develop and enhance their clinical skills. By synthesizing fundamental theory with practical application, this resource prepares students for effective work in various therapeutic and counseling environments.

Featuring significant updates, the text transitions toward a fluid, goal-based model of helping. It emphasizes the importance of tailoring interventions to individual client needs while introducing interactive features that foster self-reflection and hands-on learning through role-play activities.

Inside this book, you'll find:

• A comprehensive three-stage clinical model focusing on exploration, insight, and action.

• New interactive self-reflection exercises to help students cultivate their professional values.

• Updated case examples that reflect diverse backgrounds among both clients and providers.

• Role-play activities designed for practical, hands-on learning of foundational skills.

• Empirical updates highlighting the necessity of personalized therapeutic interventions.

• Guidance on helping clients discover the origins of maladaptive thoughts and behaviors.

Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students in psychology, counseling, and social work who are beginning their clinical training.

Product Details

• Author: Clara E. Hill, Harold Chui, Judith A. Gerstenblith

• Publisher: American Psychological Association

• Edition: Sixth

• Format: Paperback

• Publication Date: December 24, 2024

• Language: English

• Pages: 473

• Dimensions: 7.13 x 0.92 x 9.97 inches

• Item Weight: 1.94 pounds

• ISBN-10: 1433840839

• ISBN-13: 978-1433840838