Main description:

One Life at a Time: Helping Skills and Interventions is a student-centered, inexpensive experientially based textbook for beginning courses in counseling and therapy. Written in Kottler's personal, easy-to-read and engaging style, this text covers all the basic skills and core interventions that beginners need to be taught in order to begin seeing clients. Students are encouraged to explore self-reflection and make connections between the material and their prior knowledge and experience; once internalized, these ideas and skills can be applied to one's life as well as one's work. Including an online instructor's manual, case examples and first person accounts - this book will help students to understand how best to meet a client's needs.

Contents:

Part I The Process Revealed; Chapter 2 Clients in Need: Individual, Social, and Cultural Factors; Chapter 3 Models of Helping; Part II Skills for Building Collaborative Relationships; Chapter 5 Skills of Assessment and Diagnosis; Chapter 6 Exploration Skills; Chapter 7 Promoting Understanding and Insight; Chapter 8 Facilitating Action; Chapter 9 Maintaining Progress and Evaluating Results; Part III Skills of Family Intervention and Consultation; Chapter 11 Group Leadership Skills; Chapter 12 Where to Go Next;