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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface and Introduction. Demystifying the Helping Process. Section I: THE FOUNDATIONS OF COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY. 1. Intentional Interviewing, Counseling, and Psychotherapy. 2. Ethics And Multicultural Competence: Stress and Trauma, Building Resilience 3. Listening, Attending and Empathy: Essential for Relationship Building 4. Observation Skills. Section II: THE BASIC LISTENING SEQUENCE: HOW TO ORGANIZE A SESSION. 5. Questions: Opening Communication. 6. Encouraging, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing: Active Listening and Cognition. 7. Observing and Reflecting Feelings: The Heart of Empathic Understanding. 8. How to Conduct a Five-Stage Counseling Session Using Only Listening Skills. Section III: FOCUSING AND EMPATHIC CONFRONTATION: NEUROSCIENCE, MEMORY, AND THE INFLUENCING SKILLS. 9. Focusing the Counseling Session: Contextualizing and Broadening the Story. 10. Empathic Confrontation and the Creative New: Identifying and Challenging Client Conflict. Section IV: INTERPERSONAL INFLUENCING SKILLS FOR CREATIVE CHANGE. 11. Reflection of Meaning and Interpretation/Reframing: Helping Clients Restory Their Lives. 12. Action Skills for Building Resilience and Managing Stress: Self-Disclosure, Feedback, Logical Consequences, Directives/Instruction, and Psychoeducation. Section V: SKILL INTEGRATION, THEORY INTO PRACTICE, AND DETERMINING PERSONAL STYLE. 13. Counseling Theory and Practice: How to Integrate the Microskills Approach with Multiple Approaches. 14. Skill Integration and Determining Personal Style. Appendix I: The Ivey Taxonomy: Definitions of the Microskills and Strategies with Anticipated Client Response. Appendix II: Ethics. Appendix III: The Family Genogram. Appendix IV: Counseling, Neuroscience/Neurobiology, and Microskills. Appendix V: Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes: An Instrument for Assessment and Treatment Planning.
