Helping Skills

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

• 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.