The sixth edition of this seminal textbook offers new research, guidelines, and activities to teach aspiring helping professionals essential skills.

Preface: Overview of the Helping Skills Model and Updates to the Sixth Edition
Acknowledgments
Part I. Foundation of the Helping Process
Chapter 1. Introduction to Helping
Chapter 2. A Model of the Helping Process
Chapter 3. Helper Self-Awareness
Chapter 4. Cultural Awareness in Helping Interactions
Chapter 5. Ethics for Beginning Helpers
Part II. Exploration Goals and Skills 
Chapter 6. Overview of the Exploration Goals 
Chapter 7. Skills for Offering Support
Chapter 8. Skills for Exploring Cognitions
Chapter 9. Skills for Exploring and Experiencing Feelings
Chapter 10. Integrating the Exploration Skills
Part III. Insight Goals and Skills
Chapter 11. Overview of the Insight Goals
Chapter 12. Skills to Foster Client Awareness
Chapter 13. Skills for Facilitating Insight
Chapter 14. Skills for Processing the Therapeutic Relationship
Chapter 15. Integrating the Insight Skills
Part IV. Action Goals and Skills
Chapter 16. Overview of the Action Goals
Chapter 17. Skills for Facilitating Action
Chapter 18. Steps for Working With Four Action Tasks
Chapter 19. Integrating the Action Skills
Part V. Application of Helping Skills and Next Steps
Chapter 20. Applying the Helping Skills in Practice
Glossary
References
Index
About the Authors
Feedback Form

Clara E. Hill, PhD, is a retired professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Maryland. Her awards include the Leona Tyler Award, the Distinguished Psychologist Award, the Distinguished Research Career Award, and the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award. 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, including Dream Work in Therapy (2004), and Consensual Qualitative Research (2012), and Meaning in Life (2018).
 
Harold Chui, PhD, is 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. He received the Bergin and Garfield’s Emerging Scholar Award from the Society for Psychotherapy Research. Dr. Chui is president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research—Asian Area Affiliate, chair of the Science and Scholarship Standing Committee at the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy, associate editor of Psychotherapy, and an editorial board member of the Journal of Counseling Psychology and Psychotherapy Research.
 
Judy 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, addressing burnout and cultivating well-being in helping professionals, and the spiritual formation of religious leaders. Dr. Gerstenblith was chosen as the University of Maryland College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Emerging Scholar and has received multiple awards, including the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award.