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January, 2016 | SAGE Publications, Inc

Skills for Helping Professionals


Anne M. Geroski - University of Vermont, USA
392 pages | January, 2016 | SAGE Publications, Inc
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Written specifically for non-clinical undergraduate students, but also relevant to graduate studies in helping professions, Skills for Helping Professionals, by Anne M. Geroski focuses on helping students develop the skills they need to effectively initiate and maintain helping relationships. After exploring the literature identifying critical components of helping relationships and briefly reviewing developmental and helping theories, the text covers such topics as the helping process, self-awareness, and ethics in helping, and then focuses on specific helping skills such as listening and hearing, empathy, reflecting, paraphrasing, questioning, clarifying, exploring, and offering feedback, encouragement, and psycho-education. The final chapters focus on individuals in crisis and helping in groups.

Helping Terms: Helping, Counseling, Psychotherapy, Therapy, & Advocacy
Helping Relationships
What we Know about Being Helpful

The Purpose of a Theory
Theories of Development
Cultural and Social Factors in Development
Contributions from Neuroscience

Case Studies
Theories of Helping
Psychodynamic Approaches to Helping
Ethological Approaches to Helping
Humanistic Approaches to Helping
Behavioral and Learning Approaches to Helping
Contemporary Approaches to Helping

Definitions
Ethics and Professional Practice
Moral Principles for Helpers
Key Ethical Concepts for Helping Professionals
Ethical Decision-Making

Helper Self-Awareness
Personalization Issues, Vicarious Trauma and Burnout
Emotional Self-Regulation
Assumptions, Values and Beliefs
Cultural Competence

Getting Started
The Helping “Contract”
Assessment
Determining the Helpee’s Investment in Change
Goal Setting
Action Plans & Expectations
Helper Positioning

Listening and Basic Responding Skills
Empathy
Reflections
Paraphrases
The Purpose of Reflections and Paraphrases
Questions
Broaching Conversations

Informing/Psycho-education
Decision-Making and Problem Solving
Confrontation
Feedback
Immediacy
Deconstructing Conversations
Motivating Change
Advocacy

Natural or Human-Made Disasters or Crises
Crisis Response Strategies for Helpers
Harm to Self or Other
Harm to Self
Harm to Others

Group Types
Basic Concepts in Group Work
Theories and Models of Group Work
Group Leader Principles
Intervention Skills and Group Stage

Instructor Teaching Site

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It’s easy to log on to SAGE’s password-protected Instructor Teaching Site at http://edge.sagepub.com/geroski for complete and protected access to all text-specific Instructor Resources for Anne Geroski’s Skills for Helping Professionals, First Edition. Simply provide your institutional information for verification and within 72 hours you’ll be able to use your login information for any SAGE title!

  • A Microsoft® Word® test bank is available containing multiple choice, true/false, short answer, and essay questions for each chapter. The test bank provides you with a diverse range of pre-written options as well as the opportunity for editing any question and/or inserting your own personalized questions to effectively assess students’ progress and understanding.
  • Editable, chapter-specific Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides offer you complete flexibility in easily creating a multimedia presentation for your course.
  • Suggested class assignments are designed to promote students’ in-depth engagement with course material.
  • The Instructor Teaching Site includes complete answers to all in-text reflection questions.
  • Original Video: Exclusive! Original video created for the text allow you to gain a deeper understanding of the material in the text.
  • Multimedia resources are included for further research and insights.
  • Chapter summaries with learning objectives reinforce the most important materials.

Student Study Site

Use the Student Study Site to get the most out of your course!
Our Student Study Site at http://edge.sagepub.com/geroski is completely open-access and offers a wide range of additional features.

  • Original Video: Exclusive! Original video created for the text allow you to gain a deeper understanding of the material in the text.
  • Multimedia resources are included for further research and insights.
  • Mobile-friendly web quizzes allow for independent assessment of progress made in learning course material.

KEY FEATURES:      

  • Concrete in-book examples from multiple practice settings and brief online video clips demonstrate key skills.
  • Each skill presented is known to be effective for use in a wide range of entry level and “front line” practice settings.
  • Theory and outcome literature is cited to support concepts, but the book’s focus is on specific skills, rather than conceptual or theoretical knowledge.
  • A clear, understandable, and approachable writing style communicates respect for the reader, while providing practical information that can be applied in real world settings.