A Brief Primer of Helping Skills (inbunden)
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
192
Utgivningsdatum
2008-01-09
Upplaga
1
Förlag
SAGE Publications
Dimensioner
226 x 156 x 10 mm
Vikt
259 g
ISBN
9781412959230

A Brief Primer of Helping Skills

Häftad,  Engelska, 2008-01-09
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A Brief Primer of Helping Skills is a highly readable, accessible, and practical introduction to the skills of helping and making a difference in people's lives. In an engaging and concise style, author Jeffrey A. Kottler gives students in various professions an overview of the theory, process, and skills of helping methods. It is designed as an operating manual for those in human service professions to learn the basics involved in developing helping relationships, assessing and diagnosing complaints, promoting exploration and understanding, and designing and implementing action plans.

Key Features
  • Offers a brief introduction to the helping process: Written in an accessible and conversational style, this book helps students and professionals become familiar with the basic process quickly.
  • Provides personal applications: This book helps students enrich their lives while learning how to be more helpful to others.
  • Includes applications to a variety of settings and disciplines: Students can actually use material and skills in the book in all the various domains in which they function-at work, in volunteer agencies, with friends and family.
  • Uses an integrative approach: The best features of all major theories and research are combined into a unified model of helping that is responsive to different needs.
Intended Audience

This supplemental text is ideal for introductory undergraduate and graduate courses such as Introduction to Social Work, Introduction to Counseling, and Introduction to Human Services in the fields of counseling, psychology, human services, social work, education, family studies, marital and family therapy, pastoral work, nursing, human resource development, and other helping professions. It is also an excellent resource for beginning practitioners.
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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.