The Skilled Helper: A Problem-Management and Opportunity-Development Approach to Helping
By Gerard Egan
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Now in its tenth edition, Egan’s THE SKILLED HELPER has taught thousands of students a proven, step-by-step counseling process that teaches them how to become more confident and competent helpers. Internationally recognized for its successful problem-management and opportunity development approach to effective helping, the text emphasizes the collaborative nature of the therapist-client relationship and uses a practical, three-stage model that drives client problem-managing and opportunity-developing action. As they read, students also gain a feeling for the complexity inherent in any helping relationship. In this tenth edition, Egan now makes use of his version of the “common factors” approach, which gives new meaning and vitality to the book’s themes, as well as to the use of the problem-management model to organize and give coherence to those themes.
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Now in its tenth edition, Egan’s THE SKILLED HELPER has taught thousands of students a proven, step-by-step counseling process that teaches them how to become more confident and competent helpers. Internationally recognized for its successful problem-management and opportunity development approach to effective helping, the text emphasizes the collaborative nature of the therapist-client relationship and uses a practical, three-stage model that drives client problem-managing and opportunity-developing action. As they read, students also gain a feeling for the complexity inherent in any helping relationship. In this tenth edition, Egan now makes use of his version of the “common factors” approach, which gives new meaning and vitality to the book’s themes, as well as to the use of the problem-management model to organize and give coherence to those themes.
Available with InfoTrac® Student Collections http://gocengage.com/infotrac.
THE SKILLED HELPER focuses on “positive psychology” and includes material on problems as opportunities, an emphasis on hope and optimism, a self-healing approach to client-helper collaboration, the place of “motivational interviewing” and encouragement in helping, and a section on client resilience.
The author introduces his practical three-stage model in Chapters 1 and 3, which outline the nature and goals of helping, the helping model, and the values that drive helping.
THE SKILLED HELPER emphasizes the collaborative nature by focusing on the client and the counselor in the relationship, with vivid examples that show helping skills in action in a vast array of possible relationships and settings, from correctional institutes and hospitals to private practice.
Egan integrates the most relevant aspects of different theoretical orientations (humanistic, cognitive, cognitive-behavioral, and solution-focused) into a pragmatic approach to helping.
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Part I: Laying the Groundwork
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