Full Description
THE SKILLED HELPER has taught thousands of students a proven, step-by-step counseling process that equips them to become more confident and competent helpers. Internationally recognized for its successful problem-management and opportunity development approach to effective helping, the text emphasizes the collaborative nature of the therapist-client relationship and uses a practical, three-stage framework that drives client problem-managing and opportunity-developing action. As they read, students also gain a feeling for the complexity inherent in any helping relationship. In the eleventh edition, Gerard Egan and new co-author Robert J. Reese emphasize the "power of basics," which are the key ingredients of successful therapy. The authors name, simplify, clarify and organize these basics, showing students what they need to understand and DO to be effective helpers.
Contents
Part I: THE POWER OF BASICS.
1. The Power of Basics: Explore the Ingredients of Successful Helping.
2. Review the Problem-Management and Opportunity-Development Process.
3. Commit Yourself to the Helping Relationship and the Values That Drive It.
Part II: THE THERAPEUTIC DIALOGUE: MASTER COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIP-BUILDING SKILLS.
4. Therapeutic Presence: Tune in to Clients and Listen Carefully.
5. Empathic Responding: Work at Mutual Understanding.
6. Master the Art of Probing and Summarizing.
7. Help Clients Challenge Themselves: From New Perspectives to New Behavior.
Part III: THE STAGES AND TASKS OF THE PROBLEM-MANAGEMENT AND OPPORTUNITY-DEVELOPMENT MODEL.
8. The Action Arrow That Permeates the Entire Helping Process: Right from the Beginning Help Clients Turn Talk into Life-Enhancing Action.
9. The Three Tasks of Stage I: Help Clients Tell the Story, the Real Story, and the Right Story.
10. Stage II: Help Clients Design and Set Problem-Managing Goals.
11. Stage III: Help Clients Design the Way Forward.
