Helping Skills: Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action - Hardcover

Hill PhD, Dr. Clara E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1433816784 ISBN 13: 9781433816789

Publisher: American Psychological Association, 2014

Synopsis

This fourth edition of Clara E. Hill’s popular textbook updates her comprehensive exploration of basic helping skills for undergraduate and first-year graduate students. Hill’s three-stage model of helping clients involves exploration, insight, and action. Each stage is described in depth, including the theoretical foundations, goals, and helper skills involved. General principles for ethical practice are also discussed, along with important cultural issues. New material in this edition includes chapters on self-awareness and cultural awareness, a glossary, additional methods for challenging clients, and summaries of empirical studies. A companion website offers additional resources for students and instructors.

About this title

About the Author:

Clara E. Hill earned her Ph.D. at Southern Illinois University in 1974. She started her career in 1974 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, and is currently still there as a Professor. She has been President of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Editor of the Journal of Counseling Psychology, and Co-Editor of Psychotherapy Research. Awards include the Leona Tyler Award (Society of Counseling Psychology), the Distinguished Psychologist Award (Division 29 of the American Psychological Association), the Distinguished Research Career Award (Society for Psychotherapy Research), and the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award (Section on Counseling and Psychotherapy Process and Outcome Research, Society for Counseling Psychology). Her major research interests are helping skills, psychotherapy process and outcome, training therapists, dream work, and qualitative research. She has published 187 journal articles, 67 chapters in books, and 11 books (including Helping Skills, Dream Work in Therapy, Insight in Psychotherapy, Transformation in Psychotherapy, and Consensual Qualitative Research). She is married, with two children and one grandchild.

About this edition

• Publisher: American Psychological Association
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1433816784
• ISBN 13: 9781433816789
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 500