Helping Skills: Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action

This fourth edition of Clara E. Hills popular textbook updates her comprehensive exploration of basic helping skills for undergraduate and first-year graduate students. Hills three-stage model of helping clients involves exploration insight and action. Each stage is described in depth including the theoretical foundations goals and helper skills involved. General principles for ethical practice are also discussed along with important cultural issues. New material in this edition includes chapters on self-awareness and cultural awareness a glossary additional methods for challenging clients and summaries of empirical studies. A companion website offers additional resources for students and instructors.