The Essential Counselor

Informationen zum Autor David R. Hutchinson prepares both undergraduate and graduate students for careers in psychology and counseling. His areas of special focus are group work, addictions, and grieving. A former Peace Corps volunteer, David s priorities include travel and maintaining an international perspective in his life and work. He has trained counselors in Grenada and established sister school relationships between five schools in Vermont and Grenada. In Vermont, David continues his emphasis on intensive, process-oriented coursework with long weekend retreats at an off-campus lodge near Caspian Lake in the woods of the Northeast Kingdom. In 2006, David was honored with the Distinguished Faculty of the Year Award. He holds positions on the boards of the New England School of Addiction Studies and Northwest Counseling and Support Services in Franklin County, Vermont. He received his doctoral degree from State University of New York, Buffalo. Klappentext The Second Edition of The Essential Counselor is a practical and inspirational text. With a warm and passionate writing style, David Hutchinson demonstrates the process of becoming a counselor and developing key skills from start to finish. The author gains credibility through his real world examples and reflection activities, helping students feel less intimidated. The book covers all the key counseling skills learned in a skills/methods course, including skills for engaging a client, tools for engagement, lab practice activities, listening skills, developing empathy, and more advanced skills such as assessment, goal setting and action planning. Additionally, many of the skills described in The Essential Counselor are exemplified with an accompanying DVD that demonstrates skills used with six different client groups. Zusammenfassung This second edition has been updated to introuduce key skills earier in the text! and to make the text more accessible for instructors who teach other types of Helping Skills courses. An accompanying DVD provides over 20 hours of video demonstrations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. An Invitation to Counseling Work 2. Getting Started: Skills and Tasks for Engaging a New Client 3. Skills for Developing the Relationship 4. Skills for Deepening the Relationship 5. Assessment, Goal Setting, and Action Planning 6. Developing Ethical and Cultural Competency 7. Essential Action Skills: Working Toward Goals 8. Skills for Managing Crisis Situations 9. Advanced Action Skills: Moving Beyond Stability 10. Exceptional Counseling Challenges 11. Skills for Ending 12. The Whole Counselor: Maintaining Health and Perspective Index ...

Autorentext

David R. Hutchinson prepares both undergraduate and graduate students for careers in psychology and counseling. His areas of special focus are group work, addictions, and grieving. A former Peace Corps volunteer, David s priorities include travel and maintaining an international perspective in his life and work. He has trained counselors in Grenada and established sister school relationships between five schools in Vermont and Grenada. In Vermont, David continues his emphasis on intensive, process-oriented coursework with long weekend retreats at an off-campus lodge near Caspian Lake in the woods of the Northeast Kingdom.

In 2006, David was honored with the Distinguished Faculty of the Year Award. He holds positions on the boards of the New England School of Addiction Studies and Northwest Counseling and Support Services in Franklin County, Vermont. He received his doctoral degree from State University of New York, Buffalo.

Klappentext

The Second Edition of The Essential Counselor is a practical and inspirational text. With a warm and passionate writing style, David Hutchinson demonstrates the process of becoming a counselor and developing key skills from start to finish. The author gains credibility through his real world examples and reflection activities, helping students feel less intimidated. The book covers all the key counseling skills learned in a skills/methods course, including skills for engaging a client, tools for engagement, lab practice activities, listening skills, developing empathy, and more advanced skills such as assessment, goal setting and action planning. Additionally, many of the skills described in The Essential Counselor are exemplified with an accompanying DVD that demonstrates skills used with six different client groups.

Zusammenfassung
This second edition has been updated to introuduce key skills earier in the text, and to make the text more accessible for instructors who teach other types of Helping Skills courses. An accompanying DVD provides over 20 hours of video demonstrations.

Inhalt

Preface

1. An Invitation to Counseling Work
2. Getting Started: Skills and Tasks for Engaging a New Client
3. Skills for Developing the Relationship
4. Skills for Deepening the Relationship
5. Assessment, Goal Setting, and Action Planning
6. Developing Ethical and Cultural Competency
7. Essential Action Skills: Working Toward Goals
8. Skills for Managing Crisis Situations
9. Advanced Action Skills: Moving Beyond Stability
10. Exceptional Counseling Challenges
11. Skills for Ending
12. The Whole Counselor: Maintaining Health and Perspective
    Index