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Preface to the Tenth Edition | |
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A Guide To the Tenth Edition | |
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Laying the Groundwork | |
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The Ingredients of Successful Helping | |
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Formal and Informal Helpers: A Very Brief History | |
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What Helping Is About | |
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The Ingredients of Successful Helping | |
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Embracing and Befriending the Uncertainties Inherent in Helping | |
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Moving from Smart to Wise: Managing the Shadow Side of Helping | |
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The Helping; Relationship and the Values That Drive It | |
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The Helping Relationship | |
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The Values That Drive the Helping Relationship | |
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Respect as the Foundation Value | |
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Empathy as the Primary Orientation Value | |
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Proactive Appreciation of Diversity | |
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Self-Responsibility as an Empowerment-Focused Value | |
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A Bias for Action as an Outcome-Focused Value | |
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Shadow-Side Realities in the Helping Relationship | |
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The Therapeutic Dialogues Communication and Relationship-Building Skills | |
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Empathic Presence: Tuning In and Listening | |
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The Importance of Communication Skills in Helping | |
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Dialogue-Focused Interactions with Clients | |
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Visibly Tuning In: The Importance of Empathic Presence | |
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Active Listening: The Foundation of Understanding | |
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Listening to the Key Ingredients of Successful Therapy | |
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The Shadow Side of Listening: Forms of Distorted Listening | |
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Empathic Responding: Working at Mutual Understanding | |
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Introduction to Responding Skills and the Importance of Empathic Relationships | |
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The Three Dimensions of Responding Skills: Perceptiveness, Know-How, and Assertiveness | |
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Responding with Empathy | |
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Becoming Competent and Confident in Responding with Empathy: Principles and Guidelines | |
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Tactics for Responding with Empathy | |
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A Case: Mara, the Client and Carlos, the Helper | |
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The Shadow Side of Responding | |
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The Art of Probing and Summarizing | |
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Nudging | |
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The Art of Probing | |
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The Art of Summarizing: Providing Focus and Direction | |
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Mara and Carlos Revisited | |
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The Shadow Side of Communication Skills: Essential, But Not Everything | |
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Developing Proficiency in Communication Skills | |
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Facilitating Client Self-Challenge: From New Perspectives to New Behavior | |
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Self-Challenge: The Basic Concept | |
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Inviting Clients to Challenge the Blind Spots at the Root of Dysfunctional Thinking, Emotional Expression, and Behavior | |
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Specific Skills for Helping Clients Challenge Their Blind Spots and Move to New Perspectives | |
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Helper Self-Challenge | |
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Guidelines for Effective Invitations to Self-Challenge | |
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The Challenges Related to Helping Clients Manage Reluctance and Resistance | |
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Guidelines for Helping Clients Move Beyond Reluctance and Resistance | |
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The Role of Negotiation in Challenge | |
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The Shadow Side of Helpers | |
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The Skilled Helper Problem-Management and Opportunity-Development Approach to Helping | |
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The Ingredients of Successful Therapy: A Review | |
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An Introduction to the Problem-Management Process | |
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An Overview of the Stages of Problem Management | |
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Flexibility in the Use of the Problem-Management Process | |
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Stages of Change and Client Readiness for Change | |
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Integrative Eclecticism: The Ongoing Search for Best Practice | |
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"How Are We Doing?"-Ongoing Evaluation of the Helping Process | |
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Understanding and Dealing with the Shadow Side of Helping Models | |
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Stage I-A: Help Clients Tell Their Stories | |
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A Brief Introduction to Stage I | |
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Task I-A: Help Clients Tell Their Stories | |
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Guidelines for Helping Clients Tell Their Stories | |
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Help Clients Move into Action Right from the Beginning | |
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Stage I: Task I-B: The Real Story Task I-C: The Right Story | |
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Task I-B: The Real Story | |
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Mara and Carlos in I-B | |
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Help Clients Challenge Themselves to Participate as Fully as Possible in the Helping Process | |
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Immediacy: Dealing with Issues in the Helping Relationship Itself | |
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The Wider Use of I-B: Rising to the Challenge | |
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Task I-C: The Right Story | |
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Help Clients Work on Issues That Will Add Value to Their Lives | |
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Principles for Helping Clients Work on Issues That Make a Difference | |
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The Wider Use of I-C: Making the Right Choices | |
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Stage II: Designing Problem-Managing Goals Task II-A: Possibilities for a Better Future | |
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An Introduction to Stage II | |
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The Role of Hope in Therapy | |
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Task II-A: Help Clients Discover Possibilities for a Better Future | |
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Skills for Identifying Possibilities for a Better Future | |
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Cases Featuring Possibilities for a Better Future | |
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Stage II: Task II-B: Goals, Outcomes, Impact Task II-C: Commitment | |
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The Power of Goal Setting | |
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Task II-B: Goals, Outcomes, Impact: Help Clients Move from Possibilities to Choices | |
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Flexible Guidelines in Helping Clients Set Goal for Themselves | |
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What Kind of Change Do Clients Need and How Much? | |
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Emerging Goals | |
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Task II-C: Help Clients Commit Themselves-"What Am I Willing to Pay for What I Want?" | |
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Help Clients Commit Themselves to a Better Future | |
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Great Expectations: Encourage Client Self-Efficacy-"I Can, I Will" | |
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Stage II and Action | |
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The Shadow Side of Goal Setting | |
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Stage III: Planning the Way Forward | |
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The Three Tasks of Stage III | |
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Mara and Carlos Revisited: Mara's Goals | |
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Task III-A: Help Clients Develop Strategies for Accomplishing Their Goals | |
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Principles for Helping Clients Discover Viable Strategies for Accomplishing Goals | |
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Task III-B: Help Clients Choose Best-Fit Strategies | |
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Bud's Amazing Odyssey | |
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Criteria for Choosing Goal-Accomplishing Strategies | |
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A Balance-Sheet Method for Choosing Strategies | |
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Help Clients Link Best-Fit Strategies to Action | |
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The Shadow Side of Selecting Strategies | |
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Task III-C: Help Clients Formulate Viable Plans | |
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Shaping the Plan: Two Cases | |
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Principles for Humanizing the Mechanics of Constructive Change | |
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Ready-Made Action Programs | |
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Implementation: Making It All Happen | |
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Introduction to Implementation | |
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Mara Moves into Action | |
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Help Clients Move from Planning to Action: Principles of Effective Implementation | |
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Social Support and the Importance of Challenge | |
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The Shadow Side of Implementing Change | |
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Resilience: People's Ability to Hold Themselves Together, Bounce Back, and Grow | |
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Getting Along Without a Helper: A Striking Case | |
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Choosing Not to Change | |
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Revisiting the Key Ingredients of Successful Therapy | |
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References | |
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Name Index | |
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Subject Index | |