Microskill and Theoretical Foundations for Professional Helpers

Microskills and Theoretical Foundations for Professional Helpers offers an exploration of both the art and the science of professional helping.

This unique text now addresses both the microskills of professional helping in-depth to facilitate actual skill development and the theories of helping in enough depth to foster development of "personal theories" of helping. Students can easily integrate theory with practice by using a text that cuts across the disciplines of psychology, counseling, marriage and family counseling, human services, and social work with the theories that form the foundation for professional helping.

Features

• Unique and convenient, the text incorporates both the art and science of helping into one comprehensive volume so instructors do not need to use and assign separate texts to cover each theme.
• Chapters on microskills are written in "plain English" to help students understand links between theory and practice.
• Dr. Poorman brings her significant experience to readers by including a full chapter devoted to crisis intervention, an important topic that many introductory counseling and therapy texts lack.
• A unique chapter on interviewing as a research method offers students an invaluable integrative perspective on applying the skills they are learning to service and research or evaluation.
• Chapters on "multicultural theories of helping" and "the role of theory in helping" help students understand the links between theory and practice.
• Exercises in every chapter help structure students' learning.
• Vignettes within the text offer a picture of interactions that students may experience.
• Pedagogy such as charts, a glossary, and correlated readings facilitate additional reading and research for students.