Main description:

Now in its second edition, this adaption for Europe, Middle East and Africa of Gerard Egan's The Skilled Helper: A Client-Centred Approach teaches students a proven step-by-step counselling process to enable them to become confident and competent helpers.

Internationally recognised for its emphasis on the collaborative nature of the therapist-client relationship and the vital importance of a client-centred approach, the text offers a practical three-stage model which encourages a problem-managing and opportunity-developing approach to helping clients.

The book 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