Download or read book Skills and Strategies for the Helping Professions written by Thomas M. Skovholt and published by Love Publishng Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a guide for beginning counselors, this work gives the techniques to use in clinical situations. It shows characteristics of good helping relationships; details verbal and nonverbal skills; includes evaluation and ethics; explains helping theories and research; and explores client concerns.
Download or read book Skills for Helping Professionals written by Anne M. Geroski and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written specifically for non-clinical undergraduate students, but also relevant to graduate studies in helping professions, Skills for Helping Professionals, by Anne M. Geroski focuses on helping students develop the skills they need to effectively initiate and maintain helping relationships. After exploring the literature identifying critical components of helping relationships and briefly reviewing developmental and helping theories, the text covers such topics as the helping process, self-awareness, and ethics in helping, and then focuses on specific helping skills such as listening and hearing, empathy, reflecting, paraphrasing, questioning, clarifying, exploring, and offering feedback, encouragement, and psycho-education. The final chapters focus on individuals in crisis and helping in groups.
Download or read book The Professional Counselor written by Harold Hackney and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for the counselling student who is entering the experiential phase of training, this text provides a conceptual structure for viewing the counselling process, and examines each part of that structure in depth, addressing necessary counselling skills.
Download or read book Conflict Resolution for the Helping Professions written by Allan Edward Barsky and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barsky's hands-on text provides the theory, skills, and exercises to prepare readers for an array of conflict situations. It encourages developing professionals to see themselves as reflective practitioners in the roles of negotiators, mediators, advocates, facilitators, and peacebuilders. Readers will learn how to analyze conflict situations and develop theory-based strategies that can be used to intervene in an ethical and effective manner. Examples and exercises demonstrate how to apply conflict resolution skills when working with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and diverse communities. Conflict Resolution for the Helping Professions is the only current conflict resolution textbook designed specifically for social work, psychology, criminal justice, counseling, and related professions.
Download or read book Helping Skills written by Clara E. Hill and published by Amer Psychological Assn. This book was released on 1999 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book 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 opportunities for formulating solutions to hypothetical clinical problems. Grounded in client-centered, psychoanalytic, and cognitive-behavioral theory, this book offers an integrative approach. Tables and lists supplement the text, along with clinical examples.--From publisher's description.
Download or read book Improving the Effectiveness of the Helping Professions written by Morley D. Glicken and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current practice of counselling, psychotherapy, and most helping professions often relies on clinical wisdom with little evidence of what actually works. Clinical wisdom is often a justification for beliefs and values that bond people together as professionals but often fails to serve clients since many of those beliefs and values may be comforting, but they may also be inherently incorrect. Improving the Effectiveness of the Helping Professions: An Evidence-Based Approach to Practice covers the use of research and critical thinking to assist helping professionals make the most effective choices in treating clients with social and emotional problems. The use of evidence-based practice (EBP) comes at a time when managed care and concerns over health care costs coincide with growing concerns that psychotherapy, case management, and counseling may not be sufficiently effective ways of helping people in social and emotional difficulty.
Download or read book Conflict Resolution for the Helping Professions written by Allan Edward Barsky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Module I: foundations of conflict resolution, peace, and restorative justice -- The mindful practitioner -- The theoretical bases of conflict resolution -- Restorative justice -- Module II: negotiation -- Power-based negotiation -- Rights-based negotiation -- Interest-based negotiation -- Module III: mediation -- Transformative mediation -- Family mediation and a therapeutic approach -- Module IV: additional methods of conflict resolution -- Group facilitation -- Advocacy.
Download or read book Essential Skills and Strategies in the Helping Process written by Robert E. Doyle and published by Thomson Brooks/Cole. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback and offering numerous case studies and examples, Doyle's up-to-date book successfully integrates theory and skills, providing a thorough and applied overview of the field. The book's unique conceptual model walks the reader through how and why to use different counseling interventions. Section One provides an overview of the essential components of the counseling process; Section Two outlines some basic counseling intervention strategies; and Section Three presents the author's comprehensive counseling model.
Download or read book Helping Skills Training for Nonprofessional Counselors written by Elizabeth L. Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helping Skills Training for Nonprofessional Counselors provides comprehensive training in mental health first aid. Through a trusted approach, grounded in evidence-based psychological research and counseling theory, this training manual provides step-by-step instruction in helping skills written exclusively for nonprofessionals. Focusing on the basics of nonprofessional counseling, the author has written an easy-to-read text that pinpoints strategies, action steps, and investigation procedures to be used by nonprofessionals to effectively aid those in distress. The LifeRAFT model integrates multi-theoretical bases, microskills training, evidence-based techniques, and instruction on ethical appropriateness. It also includes case studies, session transcripts, and practice exercises. With undergraduate students in applied psychology and nonprofessional counselors being the primary beneficiaries of this text, it is also ideal for anyone seeking training to effectively respond to mental health crises encountered in their everyday lives.
Download or read book EBOOK Facing Danger in the Helping Professions A Skilled Approach written by Iain Bourne and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2013-03-16 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dangerous behaviour is a very real threat to practitioners working across the helping professions, and one that many feel ill-equipped to adequately deal with. This innovative, accessible and theoretically informed book focuses on the types of dangerous behaviour that helping professionals are likely to encounter, and provides strategies and skills for dealing with these situations. The book’s focus is on the immediate face-to-face management of interpersonal danger, and looks at ways in which helping professionals should implement good practice, while dealing with the moments of extreme stress, confusion, fear and anxiety that these situations give rise to.
Download or read book The Resilient Practitioner written by Thomas M. Skovholt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Therapists and other helping professionals, such as teachers, doctors and nurses, social workers, and clergy, work in highly demanding fields and can suffer from burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary stress. This happens when they give more attention to their clients’ well being than their own. Both students and practitioners in these fields will find this book an essential guide to striking an optimal balance between self-care and other-care. The authors describe the joys and hazards of the work, the long road from novice to senior practitioner, the essence of burnout, ways to maintain the professional and personal self, methods experts use to maintain vitality, and a self-care action plan. Vivid real-life examples and self-reflection questions will engage and motivate readers to think about their own work and ways to enhance their own resilience. Eloquently written and supported by extensive research, helping professionals will find this a valuable resource both when a novice and when an experienced practitioner.
Download or read book Helping Skills and Strategies written by Thomas M. Skovholt and published by Ingram. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an approach to skill development that revolves around four core areas: exploring client concerns, promoting client understanding, charting a new course, and working for positive change. This text leads students in developing helping skills. It features hypothetical dialogues at the end of each chapter showing skills for effective helping.
Download or read book The Resilient Practitioner written by Thomas M. Skovholt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Resilient Practitioner, 3rd edition, gives students and practitioners the tools they need to create their own personal balance between caring for themselves and caring for others. This new edition includes a new chapter on resiliency, an updated self-care action plan, self-reflection exercises in each chapter, and a revised resiliency inventory for practitioners. Readers will find, however, that the new edition keeps its strong focus on research and accessible writing style. The new edition also retains its focus on establishing working alliances and charting a hopeful path for practitioners, a path that allows them to work intensely with human suffering and also have a vibrant career in the process.
Download or read book A Brief Primer of Helping Skills written by Jeffrey A. Kottler and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2008 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief primer of essential helping skills for students and professionals in the helping professions, this book contains a brief chapter on theory that provides an overview of the language used in therapy as well as the various approaches used.
Download or read book Thriving written by Lennis G. Echterling and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a conversational and engaging style, this updated and expanded Third Edition of Thriving! helps future counselors and therapists to succeed in their training and professional development throughout their graduate careers. Authors Lennis G. Echterling, Jack Presbury, Eric Cowan, A. Renee Staton, Debbie C. Sturm, Michele Kielty, J. Edson McKee, Anne L. Stewart, and William F. Evans collaborated to create an informative and inspirational book that includes an overview of the literature, personal accounts from students, practical tips/activities, and the latest coverage of such topics as advances in neuroscience research, crisis intervention, and more!
Download or read book CRISIS INTERVENTION written by Kenneth France and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exceptional new sixth edition, the author has retained the practical framework for offering immediate problem-solving assistance to persons in crisis. Therefore, the goal of this updated and expanded edition is to provide knowledge and methods applicable to particular crisis circumstances. Specific topics include: core concepts that are fundamental to all intervention efforts, crisis theory and the philosophy of crisis intervention, basic communication and problem-solving skills, suicide prevention, assistance for terminally ill persons, bereavement counseling, intervention with crime victims, rape counseling, negotiating with armed perpetrators, group strategies, family and marital interventions, disaster relief, case management, physical facilities, modes of contact, community relations, selection, training, and burnout prevention procedures. The handbook also details a review of the research on crisis intervention and how individual intervenors can build upon that knowledge. Numerous case examples presented in the handbook (with fictitious names) are based on actual occurrences the author has encountered. The techniques in this book are applicable to crisis centers, hotlines, Internet-based services, victim-assistance programs, college counseling centers, hospitals, schools, correctional facilities, children and youth programs, and other human service settings. The Study Questions at the end of each chapter are designed to serve as useful applications of crisis intervention theories and principles. Intended for caregivers whose work involves crisis intervention efforts, this is an informative resource for counselors, social workers, psychologists, nurses, physicians, clergy, correctional officers, parole and probation officers, and lay volunteers.
Download or read book Clinical Supervision in the Helping Professions written by Gerald Corey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This straightforward guide for new and practicing supervisors emphasizes the attainment of skills necessary to effectively supervise others in a variety of settings. Topics covered include the roles and responsibilities of supervisors, the supervisory relationship, models and methods of supervision, becoming a multiculturally competent supervisor, ethical and legal issues in supervision, managing crisis situations, and evaluation in supervision. User-friendly tips, case examples, sample forms, questions for reflection, and group activities are included throughout the text, as are contributing supervisors’ Voices From the Field and the Authors’ Personal Perspectives—making this an interactive learning tool that is sure to keep readers interested and involved. *Requests for digital versions from ACA can be found on www.wiley.com. *To purchase print copies, please visit the ACA website. *Reproduction requests for material from books published by ACA should be directed to [email protected]
