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Microskills and Theoretical Foundations for Professional Helpers

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ISBN-10: 0205328156

ISBN-13: 9780205328154

Edition: 2003

Authors: Paula B. Poorman

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Microskills and Theoretical Foundations for Professional Helpers offers an exploration of both the art and the science of professional helping. This unique book addresses both the microskills of professional helping in-depth to facilitate actual skill development and the theories of helping in enough depth to foster development of "personal theories" of helping. Readers can easily integrate theory with practice by using a book that cuts across the disciplines of psychology, counseling, marriage and family counseling, human services, and social work with the theories that form the foundation for professional helping. For anyone involved in family counseling, human services, social work,…    
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Book details

List price: $101.60
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/14/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 338
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Preface
Introduction
Professional Helpers
The Helping Relationship
Ethics
Summary
Microskills of Helping
Nonverbal Communication
Proxemics: Space and Distance
Kinesics: Body Language
Paralanguage
Time
Do All of This and Relax, Too?
Feedback
Why Learn to Give and Receive Feedback?
The Purpose of Feedback
What Feedback Is Not
How to Make Feedback Useful
Feedback That Includes Suggested Improvements
Offering Feedback Will Seem Phony
Checking on the Impact of Feedback
Receiving Feedback
Nonverbal Feedback
Summary
Restating Content
Paraphrasing
Summarizing Content
Rating Helper Responses to Content
Reflecting Feelings
The Differences between Reflecting and Paraphrasing
Empathic Response
Observing and Attending to Feelings
Matching a Client's Affect
Selecting Accurate Feeling Words
Selecting Words and Phrases That Capture Feelings
Rating Helper Reflections of Feelings
Adding to the Basic Formula for Reflecting
Life after Interchangeable Responses
Personal Context
Asking Questions
Questions and Power
Types of Questions
Questions That Begin an Interview
Questions That Open Relevant Topics
Clarifying Questions
Questions That Elicit Examples
Questions That Encourage More Expression of Feeling
Questions That Advance Assessment and Diagnosis
Guidelines for Asking Effective Questions
Rating Question Effectiveness
Preparing for Action
Listening for Personal Context and Identifying Dominant Themes
Empowering: Identifying Clients' Perceptions about Their Difficulties and Facilitating Ownership of Goals
Facilitating Client Goal-Setting
Mapping a Plan
Operationalizing the Goal
Identifying First Steps and Setting Up a Schedule
Maintaining Changes
What Is Next?
Advanced Helping Skills
Information-Giving to Advance a Client's Goals
Information-Giving Based on Experience
Information-Giving Based on Helper Reactions, Experience, or Perceptions
Information-Giving Based on Observed Discrepancies: Confrontation
Summary
Theories of Helping
Person-Centered Theory of Helping
Context
A View of Human Nature and the Development of Problems
The Helping Process
Research
Critiquing
Behavioral Theories of Helping
Context
A View of Human Nature and the Development of Problems
The Helping Process
Research
Critiquing
Cognitive-Behavioral Theories of Helping
Context
A View of Human Nature and the Development of Problems
The Helping Process
Research
Critiquing
Psychodynamic Theories of Helping
Context
A View of Human Nature and the Development of Problems
The Helping Process
Research
Critiquing
Family Systems Theories of Helping
Context
A View of Human Nature and the Development of Problems
The Helping Process
Research
Critiquing
Sociocultural Theories of Helping: Feminist Theories
Context
A View of Human Nature and the Development of Problems
The Helping Process
Research
Critiquing
Sociocultural Theories of Helping: Multicultural Theories
Context
A View of Human Nature and the Development of Problems
The Helping Process
Research
Critiquing
Applications of Microskills and Helping Theories
Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention
Crisis Theory
Evolution of a Crisis
Types of Crises
Suicide
Summary
Interviewing as Research
Types of Qualitative Interviews
Interview Questions
Interviewer Skills
Summary
Afterword
Glossary
References and Reading List
Index