The Second Edition of The Essential Counselor is a practical and inspirational text. With a warm and passionate writing style, David Hutchinson demonstrates the process of becoming a counselor and developing key skills from start to finish. The author gains credibility through his real world examples and reflection activities, helping students feel less intimidated. The book covers all the key counseling skills learned in a skills/methods course, including skills for engaging a client, tools for engagement, lab practice activities, listening skills, developing empathy, and more advanced skills such as assessment, goal setting and action planning. Additionally, many of the skills described in The Essential Counselor are exemplified with an accompanying DVD that demonstrates skills used with six different client groups. INDICE: Preface1. An Invitation to Counseling Work2. Getting Started: Skills and Tasks for Engaging a New Client3. Skills for Developing the Relationship4. Skills for Deepening the Relationship5. Assessment, Goal Setting, and Action Planning6. Developing Ethical and Cultural Competency7. Essential Action Skills: Working Toward Goals8. Skills for Managing Crisis Situations9. Advanced Action Skills: Moving Beyond Stability10. Exceptional Counseling Challenges11. Skills for Ending12. The Whole Counselor: Maintaining Health and PerspectiveIndex
- ISBN: 978-1-4522-0502-1
- Editorial: SAGE Publications, Inc
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 384
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