Skills for Helping Professionals

Book excerpt: This work helps students understand the nature of helping relationships and the specific skills involved in initiating and maintaining a helping relationship. Written specifically for non-clinical undergraduate students, Skills for Helping Professionals, by Anne M. Geroski focuses on helping students develop the skills they need to effectively initiate and maintain helping relationships. After covering such topics as self-awareness, the helping process, and ethics in helping, the book focuses on skills such as listening and hearing, empathy, reflecting, paraphrasing, questioning, clarifying, exploring, and offering feedback, encouragement, and psycho-education. The final chapters focus on individuals in crisis and helping in groups.