Main description:

The third edition of Gerard Egan's bestselling text has been thoroughly updated with the latest research to support today's students in becoming effective helpers. Using a practical three stage process, it engages with helpers to build their confidence and teach them how to tackle the variety of complex situations which they might encounter throughout their work.

The Skilled Helper integrates the most relevant aspects of different theoretical orientations (humanistic, cognitive, behavioural and solution-focused) into a pragmatic approach to helping.

Contents:

Part I: Laying the Foundations
1. Successful Helping - An Introduction
2. The Helping Relationship
Part II: The Therapeutic Dialogue: Communication and Relationship-Building Skills
3. Empathic Presence and Responding - Building a Mutual Understanding
4. The Art of Probing and Summarising
5. Facilitating Client Self-Challenge: From New Perspectives
to New Behaviour
6. Helper Self-Challenge and Overcoming Client Resistance
Part III: The Skilled Helper Problem-Management and Opportunity-Development Approach to Helping
7. An Introduction to the Problem-Solving and Problem-Management Process
8. Stage I: Helping Clients Explore their Concerns and Tell their Stories
9. Stage II: Helping Clients Design Problem-Managing Outcomes and Set Goals
10. Stage III: Planning the Way Forward
11. How to Implement and Make it all Happen
Part IV: Exercises to Assist in Becoming a Skilled Helper, and Extract from a Counselling Conversation
12. Counselling Skills Exercises
13. Extract from a Counselling Conversation