Product Description

Textbook offers a well-established three-stage model of helping, including an explanation and demonstration of the different skills used at each stage. Addresses ethical conduct and presents numerous practice exercises and labs. Pays particular attention to multicultural issues and offers new methods for testing the training model. For undergraduate students.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #190305 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 536 pages

About the Author
Clara E. Hill earned her Ph.D. at Southern Illinois University in 1974. She also began her career that year as an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and is currently still there as a professor and co-director of the Counseling Psychology Program. She has been the president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research; the editor of the Journal of Counseling Psychology; and the editor of Psychotherapy Research, the journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. She was awarded the Leona Tyler Award from Division 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology), the Distinguished Psychologist Award from Division 29 (Psychotherapy) of the American Psychological Association, the Distinguished Research Career Award from the Society for Psychotherapy Research, and the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award from the Section on Counseling and Psychotherapy Process and Outcome Research of the Society for Counseling Psychology. Her major research interests are helping skills, psychotherapy process and outcome, training therapists, dream work, and qualitative research. She has published 161 journal articles; 34 chapters in books; and 7 books, including Therapist Techniques and Client Outcomes: Eight Cases of Brief Psychotherapy; Working with Dreams in Psychotherapy; Helping Skills: Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action, 1st ed. (with Karen M. O'Brien), Helping Skills: The Empirical Foundation , Dream Work in Therapy: Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action; Helping Skills: Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action, 2d ed. (American Psychological Association, 2004); and, with Louis G. Castonguay, Insight in Psychotherapy (American Psychological Association, 2007).

Customer Reviews

Very readable, clearly written, good examples
While rather simple for some of the more advanced counseling students in my pastoral counseling class, this book proved to be an excellent primer in basic helping skills. It was a good review for me as well (I have over 20 years experience in rehab counseling).

Solid writing, easy to read, and informative
I first used this book in my graduate program in a class for communication and leadership. This skills taught in this book are outstanding. Now, I plan to use the ideas from this book in my own career, as well as helping an undergraduate peer staff at a university learn the basic helping guidelines. This book is highly recommended.

Fabulous guide for research and practice.
We just completed a doctoral level seminar by using this book to guide process research. It's fabulous. While the book is certainly appropriate for teaching basic counseling/helping skills at the upper undergraduate and graduate levels, I also believe it has applicability for advanced practicum and research. Good work!