The skilled helper : a client-centred approach /
Egan, Gerard.
The skilled helper : a client-centred approach / Gerard Egan. - Second edition, EMEA edition. - xvi, 415 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I: Laying the foundations: 1. Successful helping -- an introduction -- 2. The helping relationship -- Part II: The therapeutic dialogue: communication and relationship-building skills: 3. Empathic presence and responding -- building a mutual understanding -- 4. The art of probing and summarising -- 5. Facilitating client self-challenge: from new perspectives to new behaviour -- 6. Helper self-challenge and overcoming client resistance -- Part III: The skilled helper problem-management and opportunity-development approach to helping -- 7. An introduction to the problem-solving and problem-management process -- 8. Stage I: Helping clients explore their concerns and tell their stories -- 9. Stage II: Helping clients design problem-managing outcomes and set goals -- 10. Stage III: Planning the way forward -- 11. How to Implement and make it all happen -- Part IV: Exercises to assist in becoming a skilled helper, and extract from a counselling conversation: 12. Counselling skills exercises -- 13. Extract from a counselling conversation.
Now in its second edition, this adaption for Europe, Middle East and Africa of Gerard Egan's The Skilled Helper: A Client-Centred Approach teaches students a proven step-by-step counselling process to enable them to become confident and competent helpers. Internationally recognised for its emphasis on the collaborative nature of the therapist-client relationship and the vital importance of a client-centred approach, the text offers a practical three-stage model which encourages a problem-managing and opportunity-developing approach to helping clients. The book integrates the most relevant aspects of different theoretical orientations (humanistic, cognitive, behavioural, and solution-focused) into a pragmatic approach to helping -- Publisher's website.
147375108X 9781473751088
Person centred
Counseling skills
616.8914 EGA
The skilled helper : a client-centred approach / Gerard Egan. - Second edition, EMEA edition. - xvi, 415 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I: Laying the foundations: 1. Successful helping -- an introduction -- 2. The helping relationship -- Part II: The therapeutic dialogue: communication and relationship-building skills: 3. Empathic presence and responding -- building a mutual understanding -- 4. The art of probing and summarising -- 5. Facilitating client self-challenge: from new perspectives to new behaviour -- 6. Helper self-challenge and overcoming client resistance -- Part III: The skilled helper problem-management and opportunity-development approach to helping -- 7. An introduction to the problem-solving and problem-management process -- 8. Stage I: Helping clients explore their concerns and tell their stories -- 9. Stage II: Helping clients design problem-managing outcomes and set goals -- 10. Stage III: Planning the way forward -- 11. How to Implement and make it all happen -- Part IV: Exercises to assist in becoming a skilled helper, and extract from a counselling conversation: 12. Counselling skills exercises -- 13. Extract from a counselling conversation.
Now in its second edition, this adaption for Europe, Middle East and Africa of Gerard Egan's The Skilled Helper: A Client-Centred Approach teaches students a proven step-by-step counselling process to enable them to become confident and competent helpers. Internationally recognised for its emphasis on the collaborative nature of the therapist-client relationship and the vital importance of a client-centred approach, the text offers a practical three-stage model which encourages a problem-managing and opportunity-developing approach to helping clients. The book integrates the most relevant aspects of different theoretical orientations (humanistic, cognitive, behavioural, and solution-focused) into a pragmatic approach to helping -- Publisher's website.
147375108X 9781473751088
Person centred
Counseling skills
616.8914 EGA