Helping Skills: Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action, Fourth Edition

Preface

Acknowledgments

I. Overview

1. Introduction to Helping
2. An Overview of the Helping Process
3. Ethical Issues in Helping
4. Self-Awareness
5. Cultural Awareness

II. Exploration Stage

6. Overview of the Exploration Stage
7. Skills for Attending, Listening, and Observing
8. Skills for Exploring Thoughts and Narratives
9. Skills for Exploring Feelings
10. Integrating the Skills of the Exploration Stage

III. Insight Stage

11. Overview of the Insight Stage
12. Skills for Challenging Clients and Fostering Awareness
13. Skills for Facilitating Insight
14. Skills for Immediacy
15. Integrating the Skills of the Insight Stage

IV. Action Stage

16. Overview of the Action Stage
17. Steps for Working With Four Action Tasks
18. Integrating the Skills of the Action Stage

V. Integration

19. Putting It All Together: Working With Clients in the Three-Stage Model

Glossary

References

Index

About the Author

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Clara E. Hill, PhD, earned her doctorate at Southern Illinois University in 1974. She started her career that year as an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, and is currently still there as a professor.

She has been president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, editor of the Journal of Counseling Psychology, and coeditor of Psychotherapy Research.

Awards include the Leona Tyler Award (Society of Counseling Psychology), the Distinguished Psychologist Award (APA Division 29 [Psychotherapy]), the Distinguished Research Career Award (Society for Psychotherapy Research), and the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award (Section on Counseling and Psychotherapy Process and Outcome Research, Society for Counseling Psychology).

Her major research interests are helping skills, psychotherapy process and outcome, training therapists, dream work, and qualitative research. She has published 187 journal articles, 67 chapters in books, and 11 books (including Helping Skills, Dream Work in Therapy, Insight in Psychotherapy, Transformation in Psychotherapy, and Consensual Qualitative Research).

She is married with two children and one grandchild.

• Helping Skills in Practice

  In Helping Skills in Practice: A Three-Stage Model, Dr. Clara E. Hill demonstrates her three-stage model of helping clients. This three-stage approach involves exploration, insight, and action.

• Dream Work in Practice

  This DVD demonstrates a three-stage model for working with dreams, where the therapist works with the client to explore the dream in detail, find insights by expanding on initial interpretations of the dream, and consolidate those insights and take action to address issues in the client's waking life.