Becoming a Helper - Softcover

Corey, Marianne Schneider; Corey, Gerald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534194400 ISBN 13: 9780534194406

Publisher: Brooks Cole, 1992

Synopsis

Focusing on the struggles, anxieties, and uncertainties involved in becoming an effective helper, this book challenges readers to take a candid look at the demands and strains theyll face in the helping professions and their motives for choosing a helping career. Encouraging active involvement on the part of the reader, the Coreys offer practical strategies for coping with the stresses associated with helping, as well as an overview of the stages of the helping process. Sources of professional burnout and ways to avoid it, the influence of personal values on the helping process, selecting field placements and internships, and the intricacies of ethical decision making are other key topics in this personal, highly interactive book.

About this title

About the Author:

Marianne Schneider Corey is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California and is a National Certified Counselor. She received her master's degree in marriage, family, and child counseling from Chapman College. She is a Fellow of the Association for Specialists in Group Work and was the recipient of this organization's Eminent Career Award in 2001. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Mental Health Counselors Association in 2011. She also holds memberships in the American Counseling Association, the Association for Specialists in Group Work, the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development, and the American Mental Health Counselors Association. She is the co-author of several counseling textbooks, and has made educational DVD programs on various aspects of counseling practice. Marianne has been involved in leading groups for different populations, providing training and supervision workshops in group process, facilitating self-exploration groups for graduate students in counseling, and co-facilitating training groups for group counselors and weeklong residential workshops in personal growth. With her husband, Jerry Corey, she has given many presentations at professional conferences and has conducted training workshops, continuing education seminars, and personal growth groups in the United States, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, Mexico, Hong Kong, China, and Korea.

Review:

"The reason we will continue to adopt BECOMING A HELPER is that the beginning human service students like it so much. They like the writing style, the lively cases, and the personalization. BECOMING A HELPER is a handbook that speaks directly to the issues that beginning human service students are facing and gives them practical techniques for dealing with these issues."

"I found this to be a very useful introductory tool in terms of helping students to really evaluate themselves, their values, beliefs and personal characteristics. Students can really sort out for themselves whether or not they have what it takes to work in a helping profession."

"This book stands head and shoulders above the text that was used in my Introduction to Human Services course. The Coreys deliver a comprehensive and holistic overview of what it means to be a member of the helping professions today. What's more, they do so with a style that is at once personal and authoritative. Overall, I would recommend this text to anybody teaching an Introduction to Human Services or Practicum course. I certainly wish that my instructors had adopted this book. I feel that had they done so I would have been better prepared for many of the difficult situations I have experienced as a newly fledged member of the helping professions."

About this edition

• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0534194400
• ISBN 13: 9780534194406
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 368