The Skilled Helper: A Problem-Management and Opportunity-Development Approach to Helping

This edition offers an updated view of the challenges facing the helping professions and the difference between academic and professional rigor, plus a new look at professional competence.
The newly reorganized table of contents develops a stronger emphasis on communication skills in Stage I, and includes an improved chapter on confrontation skills. Additionally, the book has a new focus on inclusive cultural empathy and on empathy as a "two-way street".
The book now includes a focus on the client's narrative together with the Adlerian concept of "private/personal logic" that permeates that narrative.
Also updated, the student workbook EXERCISES IN HELPING SKILLS has been scrutinized for accuracy and revised with new exercises.
Egan integrates the most relevant aspects of different theoretical orientations (humanistic, cognitive, cognitive-behavioral, and solution-focused) into a pragmatic approach to helping. Emphasizing the collaborative nature of the therapist-client relationship, THE SKILLED HELPER is internationally recognized for its successful problem-management and opportunity development approach to effective helping, using a practical, three-stage model. In this new ninth edition, Egan continues to build upon the "positive psychology", solution-focused theme by adding insightful n More »