Main description:

In this fifth edition of her best-selling textbook, Clara Hill presents an updated model of essential helping skills for undergraduate and first-year graduate students. Hill's model consists of three stages-exploration, insight, and action-in which helpers guide clients in exploring their thoughts and feelings, discovering the origins and consequences of maladaptive thoughts and behaviors, and acting on those discoveries to create positive long-term change.

This book synthesizes the author's extensive clinical and classroom experience into an easy-to-read guide to the helping process. Aspiring helping professionals will learn the theoretical principles behind the three-stage model and fundamental clinical skills for working with diverse clients. Hill also challenges students to think critically about the helping process, their own biases, and what approach best aligns with their therapeutic skills and goals.

New to this edition are

detailed guidelines for developing and revising case conceptualizations,
expanded coverage of cultural awareness,
updated case examples that reflect greater diversity among clients and helpers, and
additional strategies for addressing therapeutic challenges.

Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. Overview
Chapter 1. Introduction to Helping
Chapter 2. A Model the Helping Process
Chapter 3. Self-Awareness
Chapter 4. Cultural Awareness
Part II. Exploration Stage
Chapter 5. Overview of the Exploration Stage
Chapter 6. Skills for Providing Support
Chapter 7. Skills for Exploring Non-Affective Content, Thoughts, Narratives, and Stories
Chapter 8. Skills for Exploring Feelings
Chapter 9. Integrating the Skills of the Exploration Stage
Part III. Insight Stage
Chapter 10. Overview of the Insight Stage
Chapter 11. Skills for Fostering Awareness
Chapter 12. Interpretive Skills
Chapter 13. Skills for Processing the Therapeutic Relationship
Chapter 14. Integrating the Skills of the Exploration and Insight Stages
Part IV. Action Stage
Chapter 15. Overview of the Action Stage
Chapter 16. Working with Four Action Tasks
Chapter 17. Integrating the Skills of the Action Stage Part IV: Integration
Chapter 18. Putting It All Together: Working With Clients in the Three-Stage Model
Glossary
References
Index
About the Author
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