Helping Skills: Facilitating Exploration, Insight and Action - Tapa dura

This user-friendly textbook describes the challenging journey students must take to become effective helpers. The author presents a three-stage model of helping, grounded in 25 years of research, that can be used to assist individuals who are struggling with emotional or transitional difficulties. To master the skills they need to lead clients through the exploration, insight and action stages, students are given both theoretical guidance and ample opportunities for formulating solutions to hypothetical clinical problems. Grounded in client-centred, psychoanalytic and cognitive-behavioural theory, this engaging book offers an integrative approach that will fill the void left by textbooks that focus more narrowly on change processes. Numerous tables and lists supplement the text, along with clinical examples and helpful hints to provide students with vicarious real world experience.