{"product_id":"applied-helping-skills-9781483375694","title":"Applied Helping Skills","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith its practical, experiential approach, the \u003cstrong\u003eSecond Edition\u003c\/strong\u003e of \u003cstrong\u003eApplied Helping Skills: Transforming Lives\u003c\/strong\u003e covers the basic skills and core interventions needed to begin seeing clients. By approaching therapy as an art rather than from a prescriptive diagnostic position, this text encourages readers to look at every situation differently and draw from their embedded knowledge to best serve the individuals in their care. Authors Leah Brew and Jeffrey A. Kottler weave humor and passion into their engaging prose, effectively conveying their excitement and satisfaction for doing helping work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cstrong\u003eApplied Helping Skills: Transforming Lives, Second Edition\u003c\/strong\u003e discusses profound principles of helping in a simple conversational manner.\" -- Monte Gray\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a great text, as it provides an accessible approach to the essentials of applied helping skills and demystifies the helping profession.\" -- Theresa Benson\u003cbr\u003e\"The simplicity in the delivery of this text book is a key component is helping students at undergraduate and graduate learn the key principles involved in helping people to transform their lives. This textbook offers the student an insight into developing excellent skills in becoming therapists.\" -- Marian Connell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Foundations for Skills Chapter 1: The Process Revealed    Reading Minds and Other Superpowers    My Psychic Powers    Secrets Revealed    How Therapists Enhance Their Powers    Power and Influence    You Gotta Be Desperate    It’s All About Leverage    Amateurs Versus Professionals    A Few Missing Ingredients    The Perfect Counseling Student Chapter 2: Clients in Need: Individual, Social, and Cultural Factors    Cultural Context of the Client Experience    Cultural Skills and Competencies    Become Familiar With Cultural Differences    Assess Stage of Cultural Identity    Overview of a Client Concern    Ethical Considerations in the Practice of Helping Skills    How to be a Good Client    Decisions, Decisions Chapter 3: Models of Helping    Theories and Their Offspring    An Integrated Model Part II: Skills to Use With Individuals Chapter 4: Skills for Builiding Collaborative Relationships    Your Best Relationships    Uses of the Therapeutic Relationship    About Empathy    Relationship Skills Chapter 5: Skills of Assessment and Diagnosis    The Mental Status Exam    The Basics of Conducting an Intake Interview    Structured Intake Interviews    Special Considerations in Assessing Addiction    Special Considerations in Assessing Physical or Sexual Abuse    Special Considerations for High Suicide Risk    Special Considerations for Crisis Situations    Objective and Subjective Sources of Information    Models of Diagnosis    Remembering What You See and Hear    Making Things Fit Your Style Chapter 6: Exploration Skills    An Overview of the Exploration Stage    Structuring the Conversations    Opening With a Story    Asking Questions    Reflecting Skills    Putting Reflecting Skills Together    Exploring the Past    Summarizing Themes Chapter 7: Promoting Understanding and Insight    The Uses of Insight    The Limits of Insight    Selected Skills for Promoting Understanding    What Happens Next? Chapter 8: Facilitating Action    Transition From Insight to Action    Dealing With Resistance    The Miracle Question    Setting Goals    Generating Alternatives    Reinforcing Behavior    Relaxation Training    Using Rehearsal and Imagery    Using Role-Playing    Using the Empty Chair    Using the Transference Chapter 9: Maintaining Progress and Evaluating Results    Some Assessment Challenges    Skills of Evaluating Outcomes and Measuring Results: The Client’s Efforts    Skills of Evaluating Outcomes and Measuring Results: The Therapist’s Efforts    Ending Therapy Effectively Part III: Skills to Use With Multiple Clients Chapter 10: Skills for Family Therapy and Other Roles for Therapists    A Different Way of Looking at Things    Structuring a Family Interview    Couples Counseling    Specialized Skills for Working With Children    The Roles You Take as a Therapist Chapter 11: Group Leadership Skills    Group Stage Development    Group Dynamics    Group Leadership Approaches    Unique Ethical Challenges Chapter 12: Where to Go Next    What If I Don’t Know What to Do?    What If My Supervisor Finds Out How Little I Know?    What If I Hurt Someone?    What If I Don’t Have What It Takes?    Some Advice About Where to Go Next","brand":"SAGE Publications Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040558121303,"sku":"9781483375694","price":144.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781483375694.jpg?v=1750947107","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/applied-helping-skills-9781483375694","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}