Helping Skills
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Clara E. Hill, PhD, is a retired professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Maryland. Her major research interests are helping skills, the psychotherapy process, training and supervising therapists, dream work, meaning in life, and qualitative research. Dr. Hill has published over 250 journal articles, more than 75 book chapters, and 14 books.
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By Clara Hill, Harold Chui, and Judith A. Gerstenblith
Publication date: December 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4338-4083-8
$99.99
Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action
Sixth Edition
The sixth edition of this seminal textbook offers new research, guidelines, and activities to teach aspiring helping professionals essential skills.
Significant updates to this edition include new interactive features to improve student learning, updated case examples and reflection questions, and a new goal-based model of helping skills.
This easy-to-read guide synthesizes Hill’s extensive clinical and classroom experience with fresh, unique insights from coauthors Harold Chui and Judith Gerstenblith who teach fundamental theory and challenge students to think critically about the helping process.
Judith A. Gerstenblith, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Albert and Jessie Danielsen Institute at Boston University. Her research interests include the psychotherapy process and outcomes, therapist training and supervision, the role of attachment in the therapeutic relationship, working with existential themes in therapy, and addressing burnout in helping professionals.
Watch Helping Skills, Sixth Edition authors Drs. Clara Hill, Harold Chui, and Judith Gerstenblith discuss the latest updates to the new edition and explore how instructors can enhance their teaching methods for students entering the helping professions.
“Helping Skills is the indispensable text for teaching clinical skills to any helping professional. Students love the readability of this text, and the sixth edition’s addition of self-reflection exercises further enhances the learning experience, preparing students to become skilled and ethical helpers.”
—Melissa Goates Jones, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology, Clinical Psychology Program, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
“Helping Skills is an invaluable resource for those training students in basic counseling skills, whether at the undergraduate or graduate level. Drs. Hill, Chui, and Gerstenblith offer highly accessible examples, illustrations, and practical activities to demonstrate effective use of the skills.”
—Sarah Knox, PhD, Professor, Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Harold Chui, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include the psychotherapy process and outcomes, training and supervising psychotherapists, multicultural counseling, and school mental health.
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