With its practical, experiential approach, the
Second Edition of
Applied Helping Skills: Transforming Lives covers the basic skills and core interventions needed to begin seeing clients. By approaching therapy as an art rather than from a prescriptive diagnostic position, this text encourages readers to look at every situation differently and draw from their embedded knowledge to best serve the individuals in their care. Authors Leah Brew and Jeffrey A. Kottler weave humor and passion into their engaging prose, effectively conveying their excitement and satisfaction for doing helping work.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I: Foundations for Skills
Chapter 1: The Process Revealed
Reading Minds and Other Superpowers
My Psychic Powers
Secrets Revealed
How Therapists Enhance Their Powers
Power and Influence
You Gotta Be Desperate
It’s All About Leverage
Amateurs Versus Professionals
A Few Missing Ingredients
The Perfect Counseling Student
Chapter 2: Clients in Need: Individual, Social, and Cultural Factors
Cultural Context of the Client Experience
Cultural Skills and Competencies
Become Familiar With Cultural Differences
Assess Stage of Cultural Identity
Overview of a Client Concern
Ethical Considerations in the Practice of Helping Skills
How to be a Good Client
Decisions, Decisions
Chapter 3: Models of Helping
Theories and Their Offspring
An Integrated Model
Part II: Skills to Use With Individuals
Chapter 4: Skills for Builiding Collaborative Relationships
Your Best Relationships
Uses of the Therapeutic Relationship
About Empathy
Relationship Skills
Chapter 5: Skills of Assessment and Diagnosis
The Mental Status Exam
The Basics of Conducting an Intake Interview
Structured Intake Interviews
Special Considerations in Assessing Addiction
Special Considerations in Assessing Physical or Sexual Abuse
Special Considerations for High Suicide Risk
Special Considerations for Crisis Situations
Objective and Subjective Sources of Information
Models of Diagnosis
Remembering What You See and Hear
Making Things Fit Your Style
Chapter 6: Exploration Skills
An Overview of the Exploration Stage
Structuring the Conversations
Opening With a Story
Asking Questions
Reflecting Skills
Putting Reflecting Skills Together
Exploring the Past
Summarizing Themes
Chapter 7: Promoting Understanding and Insight
The Uses of Insight
The Limits of Insight
Selected Skills for Promoting Understanding
What Happens Next?
Chapter 8: Facilitating Action
Transition From Insight to Action
Dealing With Resistance
The Miracle Question
Setting Goals
Generating Alternatives
Reinforcing Behavior
Relaxation Training
Using Rehearsal and Imagery
Using Role-Playing
Using the Empty Chair
Using the Transference
Chapter 9: Maintaining Progress and Evaluating Results
Some Assessment Challenges
Skills of Evaluating Outcomes and Measuring Results: The Client’s Efforts
Skills of Evaluating Outcomes and Measuring Results: The Therapist’s Efforts
Ending Therapy Effectively
Part III: Skills to Use With Multiple Clients
Chapter 10: Skills for Family Therapy and Other Roles for Therapists
A Different Way of Looking at Things
Structuring a Family Interview
Couples Counseling
Specialized Skills for Working With Children
The Roles You Take as a Therapist
Chapter 11: Group Leadership Skills
Group Stage Development
Group Dynamics
Group Leadership Approaches
Unique Ethical Challenges
Chapter 12: Where to Go Next
What If I Don’t Know What to Do?
What If My Supervisor Finds Out How Little I Know?
What If I Hurt Someone?
What If I Don’t Have What It Takes?
Some Advice About Where to Go Next
Über den Autor
Jeffrey A. Kottler is one of the most prolific authors in the fields of counseling, psychotherapy, and education, having written more than 90 books about a wide range of subjects. He has authored a dozen texts for counselors and therapists that are used in universities around the world and a dozen books each for practicing therapists and educators. Some of his most highly regarded works include Creative Breakthroughs in Therapy, The Mummy at the Dining Room Table: Eminent Therapists Reveal Their Most Unusual Cases and What They Teach Us About Human Behavior, Bad Therapy, The Client Who Changed Me, Divine Madness, Change: What Leads to Personal Transformation, Stories We’ve Heard, Stories We’ve Told: Life-Changing Narratives in Therapy and Everyday Life, and Therapy Over 50. He has been an educator for 40 years, having worked as a teacher, counselor, and therapist in preschool, middle school, mental health center, crisis center, nongovernmental organization, university, community college, private practice, and disaster relief settings. He has served as a Fulbright scholar and senior lecturer in Peru and Iceland, as well as worked as a visiting professor in New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Nepal. He is professor of counseling at California State University, Fullerton.
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