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Summary
Summary
Assuming no prior knowledge of counseling techniques, this highly interactive text takes students step by step through the acquisition of the skills and techniques for effectively helping their future clients. The author's straightforward writing style, clearly stated instructions, and numerous practice exercises prepare students to use assessment information, plan treatment, and implement helping strategies. Coverage encompasses the full complement of commonly used techniques, from basic "building block" skills to more advanced therapeutic skills.
Unique Features Stop and Reflect exercises ask readers to consider their reactions to real cases and situations. Group Exercises offer opportunities for critical thinking and class discussion. Journal Starters encourage readers to test new ideas and reflect on conflicts and challenges as they develop as helpers. New! Video Exercises ask readers to watch unscripted, unrehearsed counseling sessions on the enclosed DVD and answer critical-thinking questions based on specific observations and skills. Praise for Learning the Art of Helping "Young's long experience as a therapist and training mentor is evident throughout as he leads the novitiate into the essentials of helping&.the inclusion of structured reflection opportunities permits the learner to become a participant/observer along the route the author has taken." -- Deborah J. Youngman, Boston University "[The text] stands out as a result of the nice flow between the chapters [which] actually mirrors the students' learning process, the dialogue style that addresses the reader directly, the numerous [opportunities for] self-assessment, [and its] liberal use of client-helper dialogue with examples of good and bad responses. It is a one-stop shop for the beginning helper." -- Brigitte Matthies, California State University, Los AngelesAuthor Notes
Mark Young is a Professor at the University of Central Florida. He received his doctorate from Ohio University. He has trained helpers for more than 20 years and worked in community mental health, private practice, college counseling centers, and corrections for more than 15 years. His professional writing has focused mainly on therapeutic methods and techniques, wellness, and counseling couples.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Helping as a Personal Journey |
The Demands of the Journey |
Becoming a Reflective Practitioner |
How a Helper Develops: Perry's Stages |
The Development of Expertise |
The Challenge of Development |
The Perfect Helper or When Do I Quit Developing? |
Who Can Be an Effective Helper? |
What Can You Bring to a Client? |
Chapter 2 The Nuts and Bolts of Helping |
Defining Some Important Terms |
How is Professional Helping Different from Friendship? |
What Can You Expect from a Helping Relationship? |
Learning Basic Skills and Common Curative Factors |
Stages of the Helping Process: A Road Map |
Chapter 3 The Therapeutic Relationship |
The Importance of the Therapeutic Relationship in Creating Change |
How Can a Helper Create a Therapeutic Relationship? |
Other Factors That Help or Strain the Therapeutic Relationship |
Chapter 4 Helping Someone Who Is Different |
Differences That Can Affect the Therapeutic Alliance |
Challenges Caused by Differences in Culture |
Helping a Client Whose Culture is Different from the Helper's |
Challenges Caused by Differences in Gender |
Chapter 5 Invitational Skills |
Listening to the Client's Story |
Nonverbal Communication Between Helper and Client |
Nonverbal Skills in the Helping Relationship |
Opening Skills: How to Invite |
Chapter 6 Reflecting Skills: Paraphrasing |
Reflecting Content and Thoughts, Reflecting Feelings, and Reflecting Meaning |
Reasons for Reflecting |
The Skill of Paraphrasing: Reflecting Content and Thoughts |
Common Problems in Paraphrasing |
Chapter 7 Reflecting Skills: Reflecting Feelings |
The Importance of Understanding Emotions |
The Skill of Reflecting Feelings |
How to Reflect Feelings |
Common Problems in Reflecting Feelings |
Chapter 8 Reflecting Skills: Reflecting Meaning and Summarizing |
Meaning: Uncovering the Next Layer |
How to Identify Meaning Issues with a Clint |
Summarizing |
The Nonjudgmental Listening Cycle |
Chapter 9 Challenging Skills |
When Should We Use the Challenging Skills? |
Giving Feedback |
How to Give Feedback |
Confrontation |
How to Confront |
Evaluating Confrontation and Client Response |
Chapter 10 Assessment and the Initial Interview |