The skilled helper : a problem-management and opportunity-development approach to helping /
Gerard Egan.
- Ninth edition.
- xvi, 480 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Illustration on end-paper. First published under the tile: The skilled helper: a model for systematic helping and interpersonal relating, c1975. Accompanied by Exercises in helping skills: a manual to accompany the skilled helper; and Skilled helping around the world : addressing diversity and multiculturalism.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 428-466) and index.
Introduction to Helping -- The Helping Relationship: Values in Action -- Overview of the Helping Model -- Stage I: The Current Picture: Task 1-Partner with Clients to Help Them Tell Their Stories -- The Communication Skills of Therapeutic Dialogue: The Skills of Tuning in & Actively Listening to Clients -- Empathic Responding: Working at Mutual Understanding -- The Art of Probing and Summarizing -- Stage I: Task 2-Facilitate Client Self-Challenge: From New Perspectives to New Behavior -- Stage I: Task 3-Partner with Clients in Their Searchfor Value -- Introduction to Stages II and III: Decisions, Goals, Outcomes, and Impact -- Stage II: The Preferred Picture-Help Clients Design a Better Future and Commit Themselves to It -- Stage III: The Way Forward-Help Clients Develop Plans to Accomplish Goals -- The Action Arrow: Making It All Happen. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
Internationally recognised for its successful problem-management approach to effective helping, this book offers a step-by-step guide to the counselling process.