Counseling Strategies and Interventions for Professional Helpers (The Merrill Counseling Series)

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS
Application Exercises
Preface
CHAPTER 1 THE HELPING PROFESSIONS
	What Is Helping?
	Settings in Which Helpers Work
	Helper Qualities and Skills
	Training and Credentialing of Professional Helpers
	Summary
	Reflective Questions
	MyCounselingLab
	Recommended Readings
CHAPTER 2 THE HELPING RELATIONSHIP
	The Importance of the Relationship to Clients
	Accurate Empathy
	Positive Regard
	Congruence (Genuineness)
	A Climate of Safety
	Summary
	Reflective Questions
	MyCounselingLab
	Recommended Readings
CHAPTER 3 COMMUNICATION PATTERNS IN THE HELPING PROCESS
	Ritualized Patterns of Communication
	Interactive Communication Patterns across Diverse Client Groups
	Silence
	Summary
	Reflective Questions
	MyCounselingLab
	Recommended Readings
CHAPTER 4 ATTENDING SKILLS
	Communication of Attentiveness
	Verbal Following Behavior and Selective Attention
	Cognitive and Affective Messages and Differentiation
	Effects of Responding to Cognitive Content
	Types of Affective Messages
	Effects of Responding to Affective Messages
	Attending to Context
	Summary
	Reflective Questions
	MyCounselingLab
	Recommended Readings
CHAPTER 5 LISTENING SKILLS
	Paraphrase: Listening for Content
	Reflection of Feelings: Listening for Affect
	Summarization: Listening for Multiple Elements of Content and Affect
	Putting It All Together: Using Listening Skills in a Helping Interview
	Obstacles to Listening
	Summary
	Reflective Questions
	MyCounselingLab
	Recommended Readings
CHAPTER 6 ACTION SKILLS
	Questions
	Reflection of Meaning Response
	Challenging Responses
	Summary
	Reflective Questions
	MyCounselingLab
	Recommended Readings
CHAPTER 7 MANAGING THE HELPING SESSION
	The First Interview
	Cultural Variables and the First Interview
	Structuring of Initial Moments
	Client Reactions to Initial Interviews
	Intake Interview Content
	Handling Subsequent Interviews
	Terminating the Interview
	Terminating the Helping Relationship
	Summary
	Reflective Questions
	MyCounselingLab
	Recommended Readings
CHAPTER 8 CONCEPTUALIZING CLIENT ISSUES AND SETTING CHANGE GOALS
	The Client’s World and Unmet Needs
	The Role of the Helper in Assessing Client Concerns
	Assessing Key Components of Client Issues
	Process and Outcome Goals
	Culturally Appropriate Helping Goals
	Elements of Effective Outcome Goals: SMART Goals
	Translating Vague Concerns into Specific Goals: Subgoals
	Client Resistance to Goal Setting and the Stages of Change Model
	Client Participation in Goal Setting
	Summary
	Reflective Questions
	MyCounselingLab
	Recommended Readings
CHAPTER 9 USING INTEGRATIVE HELPING STRATEGIES AND INTERVENTIONS
	Working with Client Feelings
	Working with Client Behaviors
	Working with Client Beliefs and Thoughts
	Working with Client Language, Symbolic Meaning, and Stories
	Working with Client Interactional Patterns and Relationships
	Working with Client Cultural and Social Systems
	Summary
	Reflective Questions
	MyCounselingLab
	Recommended Readings
CHAPTER 10 CONSIDERATIONS AND CHALLENGES FOR BEGINNING HELPERS
	Professional Identity
	Clinical Supervision
	Networking
	Professional Affiliation and Credentialing
	Professional Development
	Ethical and Legal Issues
	Resources
	Rewards
	Self-Care
	Summary
	Reflective Questions
	MyCounselingLab
	Recommended Readings
Appendix A: Websites for the Ethical Codes and Related Standards of Professional Organizations for the Helping Professions
Appendix B: Counseling Strategies Checklist
References
Index
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