Helping Relationships and Strategies

Book excerpt: For more than a decade, David E. Hutchins and Claire Cole Vaught have been helping readers understand themselves and others, understand the helping process, develop basic skills, and implement strategies for client change. These experienced authors will aid you in developing an awareness of the cross-cultural aspects of helping as they encourage you to discover the importance of evaluation and to be accountable for changes that occur in the helping relationship. This thorough revision offers a TFA (Thinking, Feeling, Acting) model, updated with new research and examples, that you can use to integrate diverse techniques in practice and apply to practical problems, such as domestic violence and interpersonal social skills; brief and solution-focused approaches to the helping relationship (New!); a comprehensive five-point diversity model that will lead you to examine personal aspects of diversity as you interact with others (New!); a behavior checklist; self-assessment questions; role plays and case vignettes; and a personal change project that guides you in looking at yourself, understanding how change happens, and learning how the process of change is important in a helping relationship.