Becoming A Helper

by Corey, Marianne Schneider; Corey, Gerald

• ISBN13: 9780495812265
• ISBN10: 0495812269
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Brooks Cole

Summary

Ideal for anyone embarking on or considering a career in the helping professions, Becoming a Helper, Sixth Edition provides an overview of the stages of the helping process while teaching students the skills and knowledge they need to become successful helping professionals. Drawing on their years of experience, Corey and Corey focus on the struggles, anxieties, and uncertainties students often encounter on the road to becoming effective helpers.

In addition, the text emphasizes self-reflection on a number of professional issues and challenges readers to examine their motives for choosing a helping career. Finally, the authors help students decide if a career in the helping professions is right for them by asking them to take a candid look at the demands and strains they'll face in the helping professions.

Retail Description: {RET - P/R} Ideal for anyone embarking on or considering a career in the helping professions, Becoming a Helper, Sixth Edition provides an overview of the stages of the helping process while teaching readers the skills and knowledge they need to become successful helping professionals. Drawing on their years of experience, Corey and Corey focus on the struggles, anxieties, and uncertainties people often encounter on the road to becoming effective helpers.

This is an excellent book for anyone beginning or thinking of starting a career in counseling. The number one rule of counseling is that the counselor must know oneself. This book's purpose is to get the reader to reflect on oneself in a way that questions one's initial desire to counsel and how to counsel in a respectful way that does not place the counselor's values and beliefs upon the client.

Emphasizing self reflection, the authors challenge readers to examine their motives for choosing a helping career and encourage them to take a candid look at the demands and strains they'll face in the helping professions.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiii
Are the Helping Professions for You?	p. 1
Focus Questions	p. 2
Aim of the Chapter	p. 3
Examining Your Motives for Becoming a Helper	p. 4
Our Own Beginnings as Helpers	p. 8
Is a Helping Career for You?	p. 12
Portrait of the ôIdeal Helperö	p. 13
Creating Meaning in Your Education	p. 15
Selecting a Professional Program and Career Path	p. 16
Overview of Some of the Helping Professions	p. 19
Values to Consider in Choosing Your Career Path	p. 26
Suggestions for Creating Your Professional Journey	p. 27
Self-Assessment: An Inventory of Your Attitudes and Beliefs About Helping	p. 29
By Way of Review	p. 35
What Will You Do Now?	p. 36
Knowing Your Values	p. 39
Focus Questions	p. 40
Aim of the Chapter	p. 41
The Role of Values in Helping	p. 41
Exposing Versus Imposing Values	p. 42
Dealing With Value Conflicts	p. 44
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues	p. 45
Family Values	p. 48
Gender-Role Identity Issues	p. 50
Religious and Spiritual Values	p. 52
Abortion	p. 56
Sexuality	p. 57
End-of-Life Decisions	p. 58
By Way of Review	p. 62
What Will You Do Now?	p. 63
Helper, Know Thyself	p. 65
Focus Questions	p. 66
Aim of the Chapter	p. 67
The Impact of Therapeutic Work on Your Personal Life	p. 68
The Value of Self-Exploration for the Helper	p. 69
Using Individual and Group Counseling for Self-Understanding	p. 70
Working With Your Family of Origin	p. 72
Understanding Life Transitions	p. 83
By Way of Review	p. 93
What Will You Do Now?	p. 94
Common Concerns of Beginning Helpers	p. 97
Focus Questions	p. 98
Aim of the Chapter	p. 99
Exploring Self-Doubts and Fears	p. 99
Transference and Countertransference	p. 101
Understanding and Dealing With Difficult Clients	p. 109
Recognizing Competence and Learning to Refer	p. 119
By Way of Review	p. 121
What Will You Do Now?	p. 122
The Helping Process	p. 124
Focus Questions	p. 125
Aim of the Chapter	p. 126
Your View of the Helping Process	p. 126
Our Beliefs About the Helping Process	p. 129
The Impact of Managed Care on the Helping Process	p. 130
The Stages of the Helping Process	p. 131
By Way of Review	p. 153
What Will You Do Now?	p. 153
Theory Applied to Practice	p. 155
Focus Questions	p. 156
Aim of the Chapter	p. 157
Theory as a Roadmap	p. 157
Our Theoretical Orientation	p. 158
Psychodynamic Approaches	p. 160
Experiential and Relationship-Oriented Approaches	p. 163
Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches	p. 168
Postmodern Approaches	p. 174
Family Systems Perspective	p. 177
An Integrative Approach to the Helping Process	p. 181
By Way of Review	p. 182
What Will You Do Now?	p. 183
Understanding Diversity	p. 184
Focus Questions	p. 185
Aim of the Chapter	p. 186
A Multicultural Perspective on Helping	p. 186
Ethical Dimensions in Multicultural Practice	p. 188
Overcoming Cultural Tunnel Vision	p. 190
Western and Eastern Values	p. 191
Examining Your Cultural Assumptions	p. 196
Understanding People With Disabilities	p. 200
Multicultural Counseling Competencies	p. 205
Social Justice Competencies	p. 209
By Way of Review	p. 213
What Will You Do Now?	p. 214
Ethical and Legal Issues Facing Helpers	p. 217
Focus Questions	p. 218
Aim of the Chapter	p. 219
Inventory of Ethical Issues	p. 219
Ethical Decision Making	p. 220
Informed Consent	p. 230
Confidentiality and Privacy	p. 232
Documentation and Keeping Records	p. 242
Ethical Issues in a Managed Care Environment	p. 243
Malpractice and Risk Management	p. 246
A Word of Caution	p. 250
By Way of Review	p. 250
What Will You Do Now?	p. 252
Managing Boundary Issues	p. 254
Focus Questions	p. 255
Aim of the Chapter	p. 256
Self-Inventory on Managing Boundaries	p. 256
Multiple Relationships and the Codes of Ethics	p. 257
The Multiple Relationship Controversy	p. 259
Establishing Personal and Professional Boundaries	p. 262
Combining Professional and Personal Relationships	p. 265
Dealing With Sexual Attractions	p. 272
Sexual Relationships With Current Clients	p. 275
Sexual Relationships With Former Clients	p. 276
By Way of Review	p. 277
What Will You Do Now?	p. 278
Getting the Most From Your Fieldwork and Supervision	p. 281
Focus Questions	p. 282
Aim of the Chapter	p. 283
Making the Most of Your Fieldwork	p. 283
Profiting From Your Supervision	p. 289
Multiple Roles and Relationships in Supervision	p. 300
By Way of Review	p. 302
What Will You Do Now?	p. 302
Stress, Burnout, and Self-Care	p. 304
Focus Questions	p. 305
Aim of the Chapter	p. 306
Individual Sources of Stress for Helpers	p. 306
Cognitive Approaches to Stress Management	p. 307
Environmental Sources of Stress for Helpers	p. 312
Stress in an Agency Environment	p. 313
Understanding Stress and Burnout	p. 316
The Impaired Professional	p. 321
Monitor Yourself to Prevent Burnout	p. 322
Staying Alive Personally and Professionally	p. 324
By Way of Review	p. 328
What Will You Do Now?	p. 328
Working With Groups	p. 331
Focus Questions	p. 332
Aim of the Chapter	p. 333
Group Work as the Treatment of Choice	p. 333
The Value of Group Work	p. 334
The Various Types of Groups	p. 335
The Stages of a Group and Tasks of Group Leaders	p. 337
Developing Skills as a Group Leader	p. 339
The Ethical and Professional Group Leader	p. 341
Working With Co-Leaders	p. 343
Consider a Group Experience for Yourself	p. 345
Teaching Group Members How to Get the Most From a Group Experience	p. 346
By Way of Review	p. 348
What Will You Do Now?	p. 349
Working in the Community	p. 351
Focus Questions	p. 352
Aim of the Chapter	p. 353
The Scope of the Community Approach	p. 354
Multiple Roles of Community Workers	p. 355
Community Intervention	p. 359
Outreach	p. 360
Educating the Community	p. 361
Influencing Policymakers	p. 362
Mobilizing Community Resources	p. 363
Social Activism and Making a Difference	p. 366
Crisis Intervention in the Community	p. 367
By Way of Review	p. 371
What Will You Do Now?	p. 372
Concluding Comments	p. 373
References	p. 375
Name Index	p. 395
Subject Index	p. 401
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