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The Helping Relationship is a text for learning and teaching basic philosophy, helping skills, and processes that are essential grounding for most professions and for all human-contact occupations.

The Helping Relationship presents and illustrates skills in the order in which they are used in the helping process. The primary emphasis in the helping process is to promote self-help, such as coping competence, to solve one's own problems and draw on one's own inner strengths.

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• Preface(p. vii)
• 1 Helping: What Does It Mean?(p. 1)
• What Is Your View of Helping?(p. 1)
• The Helping Process(p. 3)
• Facilitating Helpee Growth(p. 4)
• Responsibility(p. 5)
• Helping by Agreement(p. 7)
• Meeting Helpee Needs(p. 8)
• Seeking Wellness and Optimal Performance(p. 10)
• Motives: To Be or Not to Be a Helper(p. 12)
• Science and Art of Helping(p. 14)
• Effectiveness of Helping(p. 14)
• Professionals and Paraprofessionals(p. 15)
• Community Helping(p. 18)
• Peer and Cross-Age Helping(p. 19)
• Self-Help Groups(p. 21)
• Helping Is Learning Self-Help Coping Skills(p. 22)
• Helping Skills Model for Understanding, Support, and Action(p. 23)
• Suggestions for Further Study(p. 25)
• 2 Characteristics of Helpers(p. 26)
• Why Is Helping Effective in Assisting People to Grow?(p. 26)
• Levels and Styles of Functioning(p. 27)
• The Helper Personality(p. 35)
• A Concluding Statement(p. 45)
• Suggestions for Further Study(p. 47)
• 3 The Helping Process(p. 48)
• Relationship(p. 48)
• The Helping Process as Experienced(p. 52)
• Stages in the Helping Process(p. 54)
• A Process Dilemma(p. 68)
• Suggestions for Further Study(p. 69)
• 4 Helping Skills for Understanding(p. 70)
• Rationale for Skills Training(p. 71)
• Skill Cluster 1 Listening(p. 71)
• Skill Cluster 2 Leading(p. 77)
• Skill Cluster 3 Reflecting(p. 80)
• Skill Cluster 4 Challenging(p. 83)
• Skill Cluster 5 Interpreting(p. 89)
• Skill Cluster 6 Informing(p. 93)
• Skill Cluster 7 Summarizing(p. 95)
• Suggestions for Further Study(p. 97)
• 5 Helping Skills for Loss and Crisis(p. 98)
• Human Conditions of Concern(p. 99)
• Definitions of Terms(p. 101)
• Strategies for Helping in Crises(p. 108)
• Skills for Support and Crisis Management(p. 116)
• Suggestions for Further Study(p. 124)
• 6 Helping Skills for Positive Action and Behavior Change(p. 126)
• The Action Approach to Helping(p. 127)
• Problems and Goals(p. 128)
• Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Planning(p. 132)
• Behavior Changing(p. 138)
• Suggestions for Further Study(p. 151)
• 7 Ethical Issues in Helping Relationships(p. 152)
• What Are Ethics?(p. 152)
• Helper Self-Care(p. 154)
• Ethics and Interpersonal Relationships(p. 155)
• Helper Competence and Limitations(p. 158)
• Emergency/Crisis Response(p. 160)
• Suggestions for Further Study(p. 161)
• Websites(p. 162)
• 8 Thinking about the Helping Process(p. 163)
• Theory as a Guide(p. 163)
• A Personal Theory of Helpfulness(p. 164)
• General Theories of the Helping Process(p. 169)
• Social Issues(p. 176)
• Tying Theory to the Practice of Helping Skills(p. 179)
• When Helpees Do Not Change(p. 181)
• Helping through Groups(p. 183)
• Personal Epilogue(p. 184)
• Suggestions for Further Study(p. 185)
• Bibliography(p. 186)
• Index(p. 193)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Lawrence M. Brammer: University of Washington
Ginger MacDonald: University of Washington