Elisabeth A. Nesbit Sbanotto & Heather Davediuk Gingrich 
Skills for Effective Counseling [EPUB ebook] 
A Faith-Based Integration

Anyone in a helping profession—including professional counselors, spiritual directors, pastoral counselors, chaplains and others—needs to develop effective communication skills. But learning these skills is like learning a new language: it takes time and practice to communicate effectively, and lack of practice can lead to the loss of one's ability to use this new language.Suitable for both beginning students and seasoned practitioners, Skills for Effective Counseling provides a biblically integrated approach to foundational counseling skills that trains the reader to use specific microskills. These skills include perceiving, attending, validating emotion and empathic connection.Chapters include textbook features such as sample session dialogues, role plays and a variety of both in-class and out-of-class exercises and reflection activities that will engage various learning styles. Strategically interwoven throughout the chapters are special topics related to:

– multicultural counseling
– biblical/theological applications
– current and seminal research related to microskills
– diagnostic and theoretical implications
– clinical tips for using skills in ‘real world’ counseling settings
– the relevance of specific microskills to interpersonal relationships and broader ministry settings This textbook and the accompanying IVP Instructor Resources include all of the activities and assignments that an instructor might need to execute a graduate, undergraduate or lay course in foundational counseling skills. Professors teaching within CACREP-accredited professional counseling programs will be able to connect specific material in the textbook to the latest CACREP Standards.
Christian Association for Psychological Studies (CAPS) Books explore how Christianity relates to mental health and behavioral sciences including psychology, counseling, social work, and marriage and family therapy in order to equip Christian clinicians to support the well-being of their clients.

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List of Figures and Tables
Introduction
1. The Microskills Approach
Skill: The Skill of Learning New Skills
Skill: Identifying Targeted Skill Areas
2. The Person of the Counselor
Skill: Self-as-instrument
Target 1: Establishing Relationship and Exploring
3. What Do You Notice?
Skill: Perceiving
4. Your Presence in the Room
Skill: Attending
5. Identifying the Pieces of the Story
Skill: Reflecting Content
6. Validating Emotion
Skill: Reflecting Feeling
7. Connecting Empathically
Skill: Empathic Reflection
Targets 2 and 3: Deepening and Growing
8. Zeroing In
Skill: Clarifying
9. Connecting Deeply
Skill: Intuitive Empathy
10. Expanding Therapeutic Options
Skill: Using Metaphors
11. Reflecting Apparent Discrepancies
Skill: Confronting
12. Using the Here and Now
Skill: Authenticity, Self-disclosure and Immediacy
13. Strategies for Growth
Skill: Implementing Change
14. Expanding the Counseling System
Skill:Thinking Systemically and Using the Relational System
15. Appreciating the Sacred
Skill: Attuning to the Holy Spirit and Spiritual Themes
Target 4: Consolidating and Ending
16. Endings and New Beginnings
Skill: Consolidating and Ending
Postscript
Appendix A: Answers to Chapter Exercises
Appendix B: Additional Learning Activities
Appendix C: Small Group Role-Play Exercises and Transcript Analysis Assignment
Appendix D: The Relationship Between Psychology and Religion
References
Author and Subject Index
Scripture Index

Sobre el autor

Fred C. Gingrich is professor of counseling at Denver Seminary and served as division chair from 2007 to 2015. He practiced and taught in Ontario for fourteen years prior to directing MA and Ed D degrees in counseling at seminaries in the Philippines.