Helping skills : facilitating exploration, insight, and action / Clara E. Hill, Harold Chui, and Judith A. Gerstenblith.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Foundation of the Helping Process : -- 1. Introduction to Helping -- 2. A Model of the Helping Process -- 3. Helper Self-Awareness -- 4. Cultural Awareness in Helping Interactions -- 5. Ethics for Beginning Helpers -- Part II. Exploration Goals and Skills : -- 6. Overview of the Exploration Goals -- 7. Skills for Offering Support -- 8. Skills for Exploring Cognitions -- 9. Skills for Exploring and Experiencing Feelings -- 10. Integrating the Exploration Skills -- Part III. Insight Goals and Skills : -- 11. Overview of the Insight Goals -- 12. Skills to Foster Client Awareness -- 13. Skills for Facilitating Insight -- 14. Skills for Processing the Therapeutic Relationship -- 15. Integrating the Insight Skills -- Part IV. Action Goals and Skills : -- 16. Overview of the Action Goals -- 17. Skills for Facilitating Action -- 18. Steps for Working With Four Action Tasks -- 19. Integrating the Action Skills -- Part V. Application of Helping Skills and Next Steps : -- 20. Applying the Helping Skills in Practice.

"The sixth edition of this seminal textbook offers new research, guidelines, and activities to teach aspiring helping professionals essential skills. Significant updates to this edition include: new interactive features to improve student learning, including self-reflection exercises to help them cultivate their own values and perspectives as helpers and role-play activities for hands-on learning; updated case examples and reflection questions that reflect a broad range of diversity among clients and providers; a shift from a stage-based model to a more fluid, goal-based model of helping skills; and empirical updates that help students understand the importance of tailoring interventions to clients’ individual needs. Clara Hill’s helping skills model consists of three main goals—exploration, insight, and action—in which helpers guide clients in exploring their thoughts and feelings, discovering the origins and consequences of maladaptive thoughts and behaviors, and creating positive long‑term change. This easy-to-read guide synthesizes Hill’s extensive clinical and classroom experience with fresh, unique insights from coauthors Harold Chui and Judy Gerstenblith. They teach fundamental theory and provide students with clinical skills, challenge them to think critically about the helping process, and enable them to develop their own unique approach to helping clients. "-- Provided by publisher.