Counseling Strategies and Interventions for Professional Helpers

Counseling Strategies and Interventions for Professional Helpers is appropriate for upper-level undergraduate and entry-level graduate course students and counselors. A practical text that provides a look at basic helping skills used in a variety of disciplines and a number of issues common to helping relationships, processes, and interviews. This pragmatic text describes basic helping skills used in a variety of disciplines, as well as a number of issues common to helping relationships, processes, and interviews. Suitable for both upper-level undergraduate and entry-level graduate students, the text focuses on skill acquisition, and includes a number of clinical cases and application exercises for promoting skill development. The new Ninth Edition features a brand new expanded section on the basic helping skills (attending, listening, and action), as well as an additional new chapter contributed by Dr. Beth Robinson, Acadia University, on professional development and issues facing new helpers. Additional content new to this edition covers counseling in military settings, communication with LGBTQ clients, communication with immigrant and refugee clients, assessment of key components of client problems, SMART goals, and mindfulness interventions. MyCounselingLab(R) not included. Students, if MyCounselingLab is a recommended/mandatory component of the course, please ask your instructor for the correct ISBN and course ID. MyCounselingLab should only be purchased when required by an instructor. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. MyCounselingLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with the text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students see key concepts demonstrated through video clips, practice what they learn, test their understanding, and receive feedback to guide their learning and ensure they master key learning outcomes.Chapter 1 The Helping Professions Chapter 2 The Helping Relationship Chapter 3 Communication Patterns in the Helping Process Chapter 4 Attending Skills Chapter 5 Listening Skills Chapter 6 Action Skills Chapter 7 Managing the Helping Session Chapter 8 Conceptualizing Client Issues and Setting Change Goals Chapter 9 Using Integrative Helping Strategies and Interventions Chapter 10 Considerations and Challenges for Beginning Helpers Appendix A Websites for the Ethical Codes and Related Standards of Professional Organizations for the Helping Professions Appendix B Counseling Strategies Checklist