The helping relationship: Process and skills (Prentice-Hall series in counseling and human development) [Unknown Binding]

Lawrence M Brammer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1979 | ISBN-10: 0133862682 | ISBN-13: 978-0133862683 | Edition: 2nd

The Helping Relationship is a book for learning and teaching basic philosophy, helping skills, and processes that are essential grounding for most professions and for all human-contact occupations. The Helping Relationship presents and illustrates skills in the order in which they are used in the helping process. The primary emphasis in the helping process is to promote self-help, such as coping competence, to solve one's own problems and draw on one's own inner strengths. For social workers, counselors, business managers, nurses and anyone involved in the helping professions.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Counseling is not just a specialized profession reserved for a few trained individuals. All people are called upon at certain points in their lives to serve as counselors, listeners, or helpers in some way. Basic counseling skills are a necessity for every single individual, whether one is a parent listening to his teenager, a family member helping another cope with the loss of a loved one, a doctor counseling a patient about a terminal illness, a friend providing support for another friend, or even a business professional engaging in active listening at a meeting or interview. Counseling requires leadership and compassion, and it is a skill that all must possess in order to live with others in the world. This book describes in non-technical language the human helping process and provides training for anyone interested in becoming a helper. Filled with examples and step-by-step outlines on how to develop basic counseling skills, this book focuses on helping people learn to help themselves and each other. Providing a systematic approach to acquiring helping skills, this book cuts through psychological jargon and reaches across various professions and settings. Readers are asked to consider important personal issues of being a helper as they enter professional or paraprofessional roles as helpers. Social workers, counselors, human service professionals, business professionals, law professionals, medical professionals, and anyone interested in becoming a helper. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Unknown Binding: 181 pages
• Publisher: Prentice-Hall; 2nd edition (1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0133862682
• ISBN-13: 978-0133862683
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,147,988 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Basic overview of helping skills for use in various settings, November 5, 2003

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This review is from: The helping relationship: Process and skills (Prentice-Hall series in counseling and human development) (Paperback)

I'm currently a psychologist, and this book was assigned for one of my undergraduate courses in counseling techniques. It provides a basic overview of fundamental helping skills appropriate to a wide variety of situations. Particularly useful is the section on "Helping Skills for Understanding," which includes detailed explanations of the various skills which contribute to active listening. The information on problem-solving and other behavior strategies offer some utility as well, but the minimal attention given to more advanced behavioral skills does not do these areas justice. Similarly, the chapter on loss and crisis provides some useful information, but it also oversimplifies an extremely complex area. This book is best utilized as a basic introduction to helping strategies, and it would be useful to such populations as peer counselors, students, volunteers, etc.

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars So so, August 14, 2002

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This review is from: The Helping Relationship: Process and Skills (7th Edition) (Paperback)

Its okay, kind of boring. I would recommend it if your in school but if your looking for something more in depth dont get this one.