Helping Skills

Clara E. Hill earned her PhD at Southern Illinois University in 1974. She started her career in 1974 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 co-editor of Psychotherapy Research. Awards include the Leona Tyler Award from APA Division 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology), the Distinguished Psychologist Award from 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).

Preface
Acknowledgments

I. Overview
Introduction to Helping
An Overview of the Helping Process
Ethical Issues in Helping
Self-Awareness
Cultural Awareness

II. Exploration Stage
Overview of the Exploration Stage
Skills for Attending, Listening, and Observing
Skills for Exploring Thoughts and Narratives
Skills for Exploring Feelings
Integrating the Skills of the Exploration Stage

III. Insight Stage
Overview of the Insight Stage
Skills for Challenging Clients to Foster Awareness
Skills for Facilitating Insight
Skills for Immediacy
Integrating the Skills of the Insight Stage

IV. Action Stage
Overview of the Action Stage
Steps for Working with Four Action Tasks
Integrating the Skills of the Action Stage

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

References
Glossary
Index
About the Author