One Life at a Time: Helping Skills and Interventions [Paperback]

Jeffrey A. Kottler (Author), Leah Brew (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 21, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0415933609 | ISBN-13: 978-0415933605 | Edition: 1

One Life at a Time: Helping Skills and Interventions is a student-centered, inexpensive experientially based textbook for beginning courses in counseling and therapy. Written in Kottler's personal, easy-to-read and engaging style, this text covers all the basic skills and core interventions that beginners need to be taught in order to begin seeing clients. Students are encouraged to explore self-reflection and make connections between the material and their prior knowledge and experience; once internalized, these ideas and skills can be applied to one's life as well as one's work. Including an online instructor's manual, case examples and first person accounts - this book will help students to understand how best to meet a client's needs.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'This book is a gem for training brand new counseling students. Kottler and Brew walk students through every aspect of seeing clients for the very first time, (both the client's first time, and the therapist's)! The authors give the student a first row seat in viewing the intricate workings of the therapy room, from joining with a client, to setting goals, to promoting client change, and terminating therapy. In addition, in a unique format, the students are offered views of the authors' internal workings as they have learned to master counseling skills themselves over the years. Their wisdom and wit prevail in this primer for counseling.' - Lorna Hecker, Ph.D., Professor, Marriage and Family Therapy, Purdue University Calumet, USA

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (March 21, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415933609
• ISBN-13: 978-0415933605
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #503,036 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jeffrey A. Kottler has authored over 65 books in the field for counselors, therapists, teachers, and the public, including COMPASSIONATE THERAPY: WORKING WITH DIFFICULT CLIENTS; ON BEING A THERAPIST; COUNSELORS FINDING THEIR WAY; MAKING CHANGES LAST; COUNSELING SKILLS FOR TEACHERS; DIVINE MADNESS: TEN STORIES OF CREATIVE STRUGGLE; BAD THERAPY: MASTER THERAPISTS SHARE THEIR WORST FAILURES; THE CLIENT WHO CHANGED ME: STORIES OF THERAPIST PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION; and THE MUMMY AT THE DINING ROOM TABLE: EMINENT THERAPISTS REVEAL THEIR MOST UNUSUAL CASES AND WHAT THEY TEACH US ABOUT HUMAN BEHAVIOR.

Jeffrey has worked as a teacher, counselor, and therapist in a preschool, middle school, mental health center, crisis center, university, community college, and private practice. He has served as a Fulbright Scholar and Senior Lecturer in Peru and Iceland, teaching counseling theory and practice. He has also served as a visiting professor in New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, and Nepal. He is currently Professor and Chair of the Counseling Department at California State University, Fullerton.