Helping college students: developing essential support skills for student affairs practice

There is a need for a book that fully examines the specific and unique awareness, knowledge, and skills that are necessary for student affairs and other practitioners to be effective and ethical in their helping, counseling, and advising roles. This book addresses the core assumptions and underlying beliefs that impact the helping, counseling, and advising roles and skills that are central to higher education. It synthesizes and integrates information from traditional counseling therapy texts and offers examples of how to utilize such skills within student affairs. Written for faculty members and professionals. INDICE: Foreword. Preface. About the Authors. PART 1: UNDERSTANDING THE HELPER'S ROLE. 1. Student Affairs Practitioners as Helpers. 2. Mental Health Needs and Realities on Campus. 3. Ethical Implications for Helping in Higher Education. 4. Underlying and Relevant Helping Theories (John A. Mueller). PART 2: ESSENTIAL HELPING SKILLS. 5. Becoming a Multiculturally Competent Helper. 6. Microcounseling Skills (Marcia Roe Clark). 7. Conflict and Crisis Management. 8. Group Dynamics and Skills. 9. Supervision. 10. Looking to the Future: Integrating the Helping Role. References. Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-7879-8645-2
• Editorial: Jossey Bass
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 336
• Fecha Publicación: 10/12/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés