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Clara E. Hill has revised and updated her textbook, Helping Skills. The volume teaches empirically supported, basic helping skills to undergraduate and first-year graduate students. Following Hill's three-stage model of helping (Exploration, Insight, and Action), the text presents an integrative approach that is grounded in client-centered, psychoanalytic, and cognitive-behavioral theory. Hill's model recognizes the critical roles of affect, cognition, and behavior in the process of change, filling a void left by textbooks that focus narrowly on the processes facilitating change.Material new to this edition includes a revised Action stage, designed to enable instructors to incorporate the current thinking about this area; more attention to multicultural issues; and new measures to test the training model, which will allow students to evaluate their skills and level of confidence.With her accessible yet instructive style, Hill instills enthusiasm for the process of learning to help others. She also encourages students' personal and professional growth with questions that challenge them to think about and discuss the process of becoming helpers and their reasons for doing so.
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Hill (counseling psychology, U. of Maryland, College Park) offers a textbook on basic helping skills for undergraduate and first-year graduate students in counseling and psychotherapy. Her approach is based on a three-stage model of exploration, insight, and action and is grounded in client-centered, psychoanalytic, and cognitive-behavioral theory. It addresses the roles of affect, cognition, and behavior in the process of change. This edition has a revised approach that emphasizes the goals and tasks of the stages and the ability to traverse among them. It has a new chapter on skills for fostering awareness of challenges, has a revised chapter on attending, listening, and observing skills, and has new measures to test the training model. Open questions and self-disclosure material have been added into other chapters, new steps have been added in the insight stage, and the action stage has been changed. The volume does not provide information about counseling clients with serious emotional or psychological difficulties or the diagnosis or characteristics of psychological problems, and only touches briefly on cultural issues in each stage. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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