Becoming a Helper
By Marianne Schneider Corey, Dr. Gerald Corey
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Ideal for anyone beginning or considering a career in the helping professions, BECOMING A HELPER, Eighth Edition, provides an overview of the stages of the helping process while equipping students with the skills and knowledge to become successful professionals. Drawing on their years of experience, Corey and Corey focus on the struggles, anxieties and uncertainties students often encounter on the road to becoming effective helpers. Emphasizing self-reflection, they provide a candid look at the demands and strains of real-world practice -- helping students decide if this is the right career for them. It is an excellent resource for those planning a career in human services, counseling, social work, psychology, couples and family therapy, or related professions and helpers just starting their careers. In addition, MindTap empowers students with anywhere, anytime digital learning resources.
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Ideal for anyone beginning or considering a career in the helping professions, BECOMING A HELPER, Eighth Edition, provides an overview of the stages of the helping process while equipping students with the skills and knowledge to become successful professionals. Drawing on their years of experience, Corey and Corey focus on the struggles, anxieties and uncertainties students often encounter on the road to becoming effective helpers. Emphasizing self-reflection, they provide a candid look at the demands and strains of real-world practice -- helping students decide if this is the right career for them. It is an excellent resource for those planning a career in human services, counseling, social work, psychology, couples and family therapy, or related professions and helpers just starting their careers. In addition, MindTap empowers students with anywhere, anytime digital learning resources.
Reflecting current, real-world practice, the authors' insightful discussions illuminate the reality of what it is like to be a helper, while detailed self-assessments and inventories designed to encourage the self-reflection process help students investigate their motives and aptitude for becoming helpers.
The text's comprehensive coverage of modern practice includes information on skills, stages of helping, managing boundaries and working with the community and groups.
Case examples and vignettes drawn from the authors' own professional experiences bring chapter concepts to life and get readers personally involved, while chapter reviews, focus questions, inventories and exercises help students to reflect on and apply what they've learned.
Available with the text, the Ethics in Action program's approximately two hours of video material includes 22 vignettes that enable students to role-play ethical situations and responses, listen to commentary from the authors and participate in exercises that will help them further explore text topics and gain deeper knowledge. This program is available online through MindTap.
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Chapter 1. Are the Helping Professions for You?Preview this chapter
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