The Professional Helper

Download or read book The Professional Helper written by Willie V. Bryan and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The professional helper should be a teacher, a mentor, a motivator and a guide when assisting helpees find solutions to their life situations. Most clients have within themselves the answers to most if not all of their life situations; quite often, what they need is someone to assist them in sifting through and evaluating the various possible responses for a situation. This revised and expanded new edition continues the theme of the first edition in providing a basic understanding of the various kinds of helping relationships and characteristics that an effective helper must possess. An overview of the major issues the United States has encountered, and to some degree successfully overcome with the involvement of the helping professional, is presented. Part I covers personal skills that a helper should possess such as understanding self, understanding human behavior, cultural differences, disabilities, religion, and resources. Part II discusses the impacts of the changing roles of helping professionals, roles in cultural evolution, and future challenges for helpers. Part III provides an analysis of theoretical views for helping relationships. A discussion of the theories are provided to enable helpers develop their own professional approaches to helping clients. Other topics include understanding individual and family counseling, preparing the helper to provide the best professional and ethical services possible, a sound understanding of human behavior, how to conduct the helping relationship from the standpoint of process, establishment of goals, and the implementation of these goals. The Professional Helper will be a beneficial text to all counseling students, as well as students in social work, human resources, psychology, sociology, and human relations.

Download or read book Help for the Helper: The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma written by Babette Rothschild and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-03-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How empathy can jeopardize a therapist's well-being. Therapist burnout is a pressing issue, and self-care is possible only when therapists actively help themselves. The authors examine the literature from neurobiology, social psychology, and folk psychology in order to explain how therapists suffer from an excess of empathy for their clients, and then they present strategies for dealing with burnout and stress.

Download or read book The Call to Social Work written by Craig W. LeCroy and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Call to Social Work" is a great supplement to courses such as introduction to social work and social welfare, and social work practice. It can also be used in practicum/field courses to give students a better understanding of what various types of social workers do in daily practice. The text provides stories of real social workers with many different backgrounds, and is designed to help students to better understand the profession.

Download or read book Microskills and Theoretical Foundations for Professional Helpers written by Paula B. Poorman and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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, etc.

Download or read book Counseling Strategies and Interventions for Professional Helpers, Global Edition written by Sherry Cormier and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at basic helping skills used in a variety of disciplines, and a number of issues common to helping relationships, processes, and interviews.This pragmatic text describes basic helping skills used in a variety of disciplines, as well as a number of issues common to helping relationships, processes, and interviews. Suitable for both upper level undergraduate and entry level graduate students, the text focuses on skill acquisition, and includes a number of clinical cases and application exercises for promoting skill development. The new Ninth Edition features a brand new expanded section on the basic helping skills (attending, listening, and action), as well as an additional new chapter contributed by Dr. Beth Robinson, Acadia University, on professional development and issues facing new helpers. Additional content new to this edition covers counseling in military settings, communication with LGBTQ clients, communication with immigrant and refugee clients, assessment of key components of client problems, SMART goals, and mindfulness interventions.

Download or read book How to Be a People Helper written by Gary R. Collins and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this updated and expanded version of How to Be a People Helper, Dr. Gary Collins, a well-known psychologist, shares his insights into how a person can help friends who are hurting, family, and co-workers.

Download or read book The Skilled Helper written by Gerard Egan and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2014 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally recognised for its successful problem-management approach to effective helping, this book offers a step-by-step guide to the counselling process.