Helping the client : a creative practical guide / John Heron.

Previous ed.: 1990.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-267) and index.

Preparation for Helping -- Client Categories and States -- Prescriptive Interventions -- Informative Interventions -- Confronting Interventions -- Cathartic Interventions -- Catharsis and Transmutation -- Catalytic Interventions -- Supportive Interventions -- Basic Interventions -- Phases and Sequencing -- Degenerate and Perverted Interventions -- Six-Category Training -- Teaching Interpersonal Skills -- Co-Counselling.

"Helping the Client presents different forms of helping behavior which can be adopted by any practitioner working face-to-face with a client. The author explores the contexts and issues associated with these different forms of helping and, for each, describes a wide range of practical interventions for the practitioner to use. He examines the objectives of helping, states of person-hood, the many ways in which helping can degenerate, the preparation and training of the practitioner, and examples of how the interventions can be used by different occupational groups. Helping the Client is the Fifth Edition of the book originally entitled Six Category Intervention Analysis. Revised and enlarged throughout, with a new chapter on co-working, the book remains essential reading for the development of interpersonal skills, in counseling, management, health care, social work, youth and community work, education, and many other professions."--BOOK JACKET.

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