Leah M. Brew & Jeffrey A. Kottler 
Applied Helping Skills [EPUB ebook] 
Transforming Lives

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.

Зміст

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

Про автора

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.