Focusing on the skills, stages, and issues involved in the helping process, Barbara Okun’s new edition of Effective Helping: Interviewing and Counseling Techniques offers professionals and paraprofessionals a practical introduction to human relations counseling. Case examples and individual and group exercises are integrated with helping theory to provide readers with the knowledge and skilss they need to develop genuine, empathic, helping relationships.
Effective Helping: Third Edition includes:
- Extensive practice in communication skills and relationship building
- Coverage of major theories, approaches, and strategies of helping
- Applications of strategies to helping and crisis situations
- Coverage of the helper’s values along with ethical and professional issue