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Skills for Helping Professionals
- Anne M. Geroski - University of Vermont, USA
January 2016 | 392 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Written specifically for non-clinical undergraduate students, but also relevant to graduate studies in helping professions, Skills for Helping Professionals, by Anne M. Geroski focuses on helping students develop the skills they need to effectively initiate and maintain helping relationships. After exploring the literature identifying critical components of helping relationships and briefly reviewing developmental and helping theories, the text covers such topics as the helping process, self-awareness, and ethics in helping, and then focuses on specific helping skills such as listening and hearing, empathy, reflecting, paraphrasing, questioning, clarifying, exploring, and offering feedback, encouragement, and psycho-education. The final chapters focus on individuals in crisis and helping in groups.
Chapter 1: Helping Processes
Chapter 2: Understanding Development: Theories, Social Context, and Neuroscience
Chapter 3: Helping Theories for Working with Others
Chapter 4: Ethical Principles for Helping Relationships
Chapter 5: Self-Awareness, Cultural Awareness, and Helper Competence
Chapter 6: Setting the Stage for Helping
Chapter 7: Listening and Basic Responding Skills in Helping Conversations
Chapter 8: Skills for Promoting Change
Chapter 9: Helping People in Crisis
Chapter 10: Helping in Groups
The course that I lead has a professional skills module. This book is great to support the module
Institute of Education, Worcester University
June 6, 2024
Exactly the textbook I needed for the class.
Benedictine - Mesa Campus, Benedictine University
August 8, 2023
"Skills for Helping Professionals" is a clear and concise approach to undergraduate helping skills. I appreciate that the book can be used to survey different issues related to helping relationships, which will provide a useful framework and approach for our Counseling Center Paraprofessional students, who provide outreach services for the Counseling Center. A little stronger Multicultural Focus would he helpful in future editions.
Psychology Dept, Univ Of Illinois-Urbana Champ
September 26, 2016
