Helping Skills Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action

by Hill, Clara E.; Chui, Harold; Gerstenblith, Judith A.

• ISBN13: 9781433840838
• ISBN10: 1433840839
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2024-12-24
• Publisher: American Psychological Association

Summary

The sixth edition of this seminal textbook offers an updated model for aspiring helping professionals to enhance their clinical skills.

Significant updates to this edition include: 

• new interactive features to improve student learning, including self-reflection exercises to help them cultivate their own values and perspectives as helpers and role-play activities for hands-on learning;
• updated case examples and reflection questions that reflect a broad range of diversity among clients and providers;
• a shift from a stage-based model to a more fluid, goal-based model of helping skills; and
• empirical updates that help students understand the importance of tailoring interventions to clients’ individual needs.

Clara Hill’s helping skills model consists of three main goals—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 creating positive long‑term change.

This easy-to-read guide synthesizes Hill’s extensive clinical and classroom experience with fresh, unique insights from coauthors Harold Chui and Judy Gerstenblith. They teach fundamental theory and provide students with clinical skills, challenge them to think critically about the helping process, and enable them to develop their own unique approach to helping clients.

Author Biography

Clara E. Hill, PhD, is a retired professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Maryland. Her awards include the Leona Tyler Award, the Distinguished Psychologist Award, the Distinguished Research Career Award, and the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award. Her major research interests are helping skills, the psychotherapy process, training and supervising therapists, dream work, meaning in life, and qualitative research. Dr. Hill has published over 250 journal articles, more than 75 book chapters, and 14 books, including Dream Work in Therapy (2004), and Consensual Qualitative Research (2012), and Meaning in Life (2018).
 
Harold Chui, PhD, is associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include the psychotherapy process and outcomes, training and supervising psychotherapists, multicultural counseling, and school mental health. He received the Bergin and Garfield’s Emerging Scholar Award from the Society for Psychotherapy Research. Dr. Chui is president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research—Asian Area Affiliate, chair of the Science and Scholarship Standing Committee at the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy, associate editor of Psychotherapy, and an editorial board member of the Journal of Counseling Psychology and Psychotherapy Research.
 
Judy Gerstenblith, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Albert and Jessie Danielsen Institute at Boston University. Her research interests include the psychotherapy process and outcomes, therapist training and supervision, the role of attachment in the therapeutic relationship, working with existential themes in therapy, addressing burnout and cultivating well-being in helping professionals, and the spiritual formation of religious leaders. Dr. Gerstenblith was chosen as the University of Maryland College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Emerging Scholar and has received multiple awards, including the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award.

Table of Contents

Preface: Overview of the Helping Skills Model and Updates to the Sixth Edition
Acknowledgments
Part I. Foundation of the Helping Process
Chapter 1. Introduction to Helping
Chapter 2. A Model of the Helping Process
Chapter 3. Helper Self-Awareness
Chapter 4. Cultural Awareness in Helping Interactions
Chapter 5. Ethics for Beginning Helpers
Part II. Exploration Goals and Skills 
Chapter 6. Overview of the Exploration Goals 
Chapter 7. Skills for Offering Support
Chapter 8. Skills for Exploring Cognitions
Chapter 9. Skills for Exploring and Experiencing Feelings
Chapter 10. Integrating the Exploration Skills
Part III. Insight Goals and Skills
Chapter 11. Overview of the Insight Goals
Chapter 12. Skills to Foster Client Awareness
Chapter 13. Skills for Facilitating Insight
Chapter 14. Skills for Processing the Therapeutic Relationship
Chapter 15. Integrating the Insight Skills
Part IV. Action Goals and Skills
Chapter 16. Overview of the Action Goals
Chapter 17. Skills for Facilitating Action
Chapter 18. Steps for Working With Four Action Tasks
Chapter 19. Integrating the Action Skills
Part V. Application of Helping Skills and Next Steps
Chapter 20. Applying the Helping Skills in Practice
Glossary
References
Index
About the Authors
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