Elements of Counseling

Brief, handy, and affordable, this primer for human service workers distills the basic elements of counseling into a concise handbook. An invaluable tool for easy reference, this book offers 40 practical guidelines for working with clients, each presented with a brief description and an example. .Readers will explore skills central to self-evaluation, relationship building, and facilitating client self-exploration as well as more pragmatic matters such as arrangement of the counseling...
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Brief, handy, and affordable, this primer for human service workers distills the basic elements of counseling into a concise handbook. An invaluable tool for easy reference, this book offers 40 practical guidelines for working with clients, each presented with a brief description and an example. .Readers will explore skills central to self-evaluation, relationship building, and facilitating client self-exploration as well as more pragmatic matters such as arrangement of the counseling setting and the importance of documentation. This handbook also gives an introduction to skills and issues important in crisis intervention and cross-cultural counseling. . Just as most writers would not be without Strunk and White's now classic The Elements of Style, most counselors, no matter what their specialty, should have a copy of The Elements of Counseling, Second Edition, at their fingertips.