Essentials of skilled helping : managing problems, developing opportunities

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Essentials of skilled helping : managing problems, developing opportunities

Gerard Egan

Thomson/Wadsworth, c2006

  • : pbk
  • : [booklet]

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-302) and indexes

Booklet: Skilled Helping Around the World: Addressing Diversity and Multiculturalism ( 61 p. : 22 cm )

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780495004875

Description

Short, inexpensive, and thorough! Sounds like the perfect textbook. ESSENTIALS OF SKILLED HELPING: MANAGING PROBLEMS, DEVELOPING OPPORTUNITIES shows you how to both address conflicts and create opportunities at the same time. And because it's packed with case studies and written in a simple style, this helping textbook is easy to use as well as informative. Plus, it's loaded with study tools to help you make sure that you've absorbed all the valuable material that you'll need for your career as a helper.

Table of Contents

PART I: LAYING THE GROUNDWORK. 1. Introduction to Helping. 2. The Helping Relationship and the Values that Drive it. PART II: THE THERAPEUTIC DIALOGUE. 3. The Basics of Communication: Tuning In to Clients and Active Listening. 4. Communicating Empathy and Checking Understanding. 5. The Art of Probing and Summarizing. 6. Helping Clients Challenge Themselves. 7. Challenging Skills and the Wisdom Needed to Use Them Well. PART III: THE STAGES AND TASKS OF THE HELPING MODEL. 8. Stage I: Helping Clients Tell Their Stories: An Introduction to Stage I. 9. Stage II. Helping Clients Identify, Choose, and Shape Problem-Managing Goals. 10. Stage III: Helping Clients Develop Strategies and Plans for Accomplishing Goals. 11. The Action Arrow: Helping Clients Overcome Obstacles, Execute Plans, and Get Results. References. Index.
Volume

: [booklet] ISBN 9780495092292

Description

This booklet, written by Gerry Egan, with assistance from Rich McGourty and Hany Shamshoum (cultural insights and edits), demonstrates how the skills described in the Egan book apply to situations with people from different cultures. Egan relates anecdotes about his experiences abroad and in the U.S. with people from different cultures. He goes through the basic skills and describes how each should be used with diverse populations. Thirty-three personalizing exercises provide students with the opportunity to apply the skills covered in the booklet. Bundled free with every new copy of the text!

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  • NCID
    BA78879960
  • ISBN
    • 0495004871
    • 0495092290
  • LCCN
    2005929701
  • Country Code
    at
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Australia ; Belmont, CA
  • Pages/Volumes
    xii, 308 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Attached Material
    booklet
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