Helping Skills: Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action [Hardcover]

Clara E. Hill (Author), Karen O'Brien (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2004

The text presents an integrative approach that is grounded in client-centered, psychoanalytic, and cognitive-behavioral theory. More attention to multicultural issues; new measures to text the training model which allow students to evaluate their skills and level of confidence and a revised structure of the Action stage which will enable instructors to present easily more of the current thinking about this area are all new additions to this text.

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About the Author

Clara E. Hill earned her Ph.D. at Southern Illinois University in 1974. She also began her career that year as an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and is currently still there as a professor and co-director of the Counseling Psychology Program. She has been the president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research; the editor of the Journal of Counseling Psychology; and the editor of Psychotherapy Research, the journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. She was awarded the Leona Tyler Award from Division 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology), the Distinguished Psychologist Award from Division 29 (Psychotherapy) of the American Psychological Association, the Distinguished Research Career Award from the Society for Psychotherapy Research, and the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award from the Section on Counseling and Psychotherapy Process and Outcome Research of the 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 161 journal articles; 34 chapters in books; and 7 books, including Therapist Techniques and Client Outcomes: Eight Cases of Brief Psychotherapy; Working with Dreams in Psychotherapy; Helping Skills: Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action, 1st ed. (with Karen M. O'Brien), Helping Skills: The Empirical Foundation , Dream Work in Therapy: Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action; Helping Skills: Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action, 2d ed. (American Psychological Association, 2004); and, with Louis G. Castonguay, Insight in Psychotherapy (American Psychological Association, 2007). --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 461 pages
• Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA); 2 edition (January 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591471044
• ISBN-13: 978-1591471042
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #475,538 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very readable, clearly written, good examples, July 7, 2003

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Rosemarie Tobin (Albany, New York United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Helping Skills: Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action (Hardcover)

While rather simple for some of the more advanced counseling students in my pastoral counseling class, this book proved to be an excellent primer in basic helping skills. It was a good review for me as well (I have over 20 years experience in rehab counseling).

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solid writing, easy to read, and informative, May 2, 2003

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This review is from: Helping Skills: Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action (Hardcover)

I first used this book in my graduate program in a class for communication and leadership. This skills taught in this book are outstanding. Now, I plan to use the ideas from this book in my own career, as well as helping an undergraduate peer staff at a university learn the basic helping guidelines. This book is highly recommended.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous guide for research and practice., May 9, 2002

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Lynette Heim Bikos (Ankara, Turkey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Helping Skills: Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action (Hardcover)

We just completed a doctoral level seminar by using this book to guide process research. It's fabulous. While the book is certainly appropriate for teaching basic counseling/helping skills at the upper undergraduate and graduate levels, I also believe it has applicability for advanced practicum and research. Good work!