Helping Skills: Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action, Second Edition Clara E. Hill, PhD LIST PRICE: $54.95 MEMBER/AFFILIATE PRICE: $44.95 461 pages ITEM #: 4311006 ISBN: 1-59147-104-4 ISBN 13: 978-1-59147-104-2 PUBLICATION DATE: March 2004 EDITION: Hardcover View the Table of Contents

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Respected clinician and researcher, Clara Hill, has revised and updated her popular textbook, Helping Skills. Like the first, this second edition teaches empirically supported, basic helping skills to undergraduate and first-year graduate students.

Following Hill's well-established 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 more narrowly on the processes facilitating change.

The text includes several useful features and provides in-depth discussion about key topics, such as:

• the theoretical foundation of the three-stage model of helping;
• a comprehensive explanation and demonstration of the different skills used in each stage (e.g., attending and listening, restatement, challenge, self-disclosure, and feedback);
• a chapter about the general principles of ethical conduct and strategies for resolving ethical dilemmas;
• numerous practice exercises and labs that illustrate the complex interaction between client and helper;
• and straightforward instruction to help students understand how to intervene most effectively from moment to moment based on the their intentions and the client's reactions.

Material new to this edition includes

• a revised structure of the Action stage, which will enable instructors to present easily more of 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.

An Instructor and Student Resource Guide Web site has also been created to offer students and instructors helpful resources. This section of the instructor site is restricted to instructors only and includes sample multiple-choice questions, short-answer essay questions, and syllabi. Students will find additional practice exercises and downloadable electronic versions of the evaluation forms and research material specified in the text.

Praise for the First Edition

Drs. Hill and O'Brien furnish a sparkling and masterful synthesis of fundamental therapeutic skills grounded in empirical research and clinical sensitivity. Their integrative stage model and valuable practice exercises will systematically facilitate the relational capacities of developing healers—neophyte and seasoned alike. Helping Skills is destined to be the premier text on essential interviewing and helping skills.
—John C. Norcross, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University of Scranton, PA, and President-elect, APA Division of Psychotherapy

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