Applied Helping Skills
Transforming Lives

Second Edition

Leah Brew - California State University, Fullerton, USA
Jeffrey A. Kottler - California State University, Fullerton, USA

Courses:
General Counseling Skills | Internship in Counseling

July 2016 | 488 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

With its practical, experiential approach, the Second Edition of Applied Helping Skills: Transforming Lives 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.

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Part 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

“Applied Helping Skills: Transforming Lives, Second Edition discusses profound principles of helping in a simple conversational manner.”

Monte Gray

Bronx Community College

“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

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

“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

The Academy of Creative Psychological Therapy, Ireland

Key features

KEY FEATURES:

New video clips have been added to the existing collection of online resources for even more opportunities to engage readers with key concepts.
Content reflecting CACREP standards aligns with programs that foster the development of knowledgeable and caring professionals.
Coverage of core helping skills is augmented with newer, more cutting-edge brief interventions and issues related to treatment planning.
A generic model of helping combines features of humanistic, psychodynamic, and cognitive theories to address a variety of different settings and clinical styles.
Diversity issues are infused into every facet of the process to emphasize the importance of adapting skills to fit the unique needs of individual clients and cultural groups.
Case examples, reflective activities, first-person accounts, homework assignments, and application exercises personalize concepts for immediate application to work and life settings.
Integrated Client Therapist Dialogues show students how the flow of client dialogue transpires and how to see identify possible solutions.
Attention is given to how effective practitioners feel, in addition to what they do.
An Appendix details a full session from the beginning to end stages of therapy to emphasize a variety of learning areas.

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Applied Helping Skills
Transforming Lives

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