Helping Skills

The sixth edition of this seminal textbook offers an updated model for aspiring helping professionals to enhance their clinical skills.

Significant updates to this edition include: 

• new interactive features to improve student learning, including self-reflection exercises to help them cultivate their own values and perspectives as helpers and role-play activities for hands-on learning
• updated case examples and reflection questions that reflect a broad range of diversity among clients and providers
• a shift from a stage-based model to a more fluid, goal-based model of helping skills and
• empirical updates that help students understand the importance of tailoring interventions to clients amp rsquo individual needs.

Clara Hill amp rsquo s helping skills model consists of three main goals-exploration, insight, and action-in which helpers guide clients in exploring their thoughts and feelings, discovering the origins and consequences of maladaptive thoughts and behaviors, and creating positive long‑term change.

This easy-to-read guide synthesizes Hill amp rsquo s extensive clinical and classroom experience with fresh, unique insights from coauthors Harold Chui and Judy Gerstenblith. They teach fundamental theory and provide students with clinical skills, challenge them to think critically about the helping process, and enable them to develop their own unique approach to helping clients.

The classic Helping Skills excels and improves with every edition! This new iteration brings more about cultural competence, case conceptualization, and clinician self-awareness. Hill and colleagues provide stellar training in foundational helping skills while simultaneously reflecting the complexity and beauty of the therapeutic enterprise. - John C. Norcross, PhD, ABPP, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA; Author/editor of Psychotherapy Relationships That Work and Personalizing Psychotherapy As the delivery of mental health care is changing at the speed of light, acquiring helping skills remains a crucial key to effective practice. And while most classic books stay on a bookshelf, this one will be constantly in the hands of trainees, practitioners, and supervisors. - Louis G. Castonguay, PhD, Liberal Arts Professor of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA The most helpful book about psychotherapeutic helping keeps getting better. The authors have not only discussed in depth the importance and integration of three significant, common goals of therapy amp ndash amp ndash exploration, insight, and action amp ndash amp ndash but have done so in an exemplary amp ldquo experience near amp rdquo fashion, providing multiple clinical examples, questions, cultural perspectives, research evidence, and reflections that will surely improve the ability and self-awareness of all those learning to do this increasingly important work. - Barry A. Farber, PhD, Program in Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY Helping Skills is an invaluable resource for those training students in basic counseling skills, whether at the undergraduate or graduate level. Drs. Hill, Chui, and Gerstenblith, well-regarded experts in this area, effectively integrate conceptual and empirical literature while remaining keenly attuned to the ever-evolving professional demands of those working in the mental health field. Hill and colleagues also offer highly accessible examples, illustrations, and practical activities to demonstrate effective use of the skills. - Sarah Knox, PhD, Professor, Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI My students love learning helping skills! This book brings exploration, insight, and action to the next level as goals and intentions rather than stages. The helping skills model is more versatile than ever and includes thoughtful attunement to cultural competence, humility, and critical consciousness. Students will appreciate the focus on therapeutic change processes and skills. Instructors will prize the focus on therapist self-awareness, ethics, and the therapeutic relationship. The learning activities and invitations for self-reflection will appeal to everyone. The authors' research has demonstrated the value of learning by doing, and this book makes learning come alive. - Heidi A. Zetzer, PhD, Teaching Professor, Department of Counseling, Clinical, & School Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara Helping Skills is the indispensable text for teaching clinical skills to any helping professional. Hill amp rsquo s transtheoretical model seamlessly integrates current empirical evidence with clear, practical guidance for delivering effective helping skills at every level of training. Students love the readability of this text, and the sixth edition amp rsquo s addition of self-reflection exercises further enhances the learning experience, preparing students to become skilled and ethical helpers. - Melissa Goates Jones, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology, Clinical Psychology Program, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT This book just gets better and better with every edition! It provides a beautiful blending of theory and skills, just as psychotherapy requires such a seamless integration in practice. The authors invite students of all levels to engage in the exciting process of becoming a helper through critical reflection, intentional practice, and an openness to the complexity that is counseling and psychotherapy. - Elizabeth Nutt Williams, PhD, Professor of Psychology, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City; Fellow of the American Psychological Association Hill is a master at distilling decades of psychotherapy research into concepts and skills that are understandable for beginner to intermediate students of counseling. The wide-ranging applicability of her common factors approach, backed by her deep knowledge of the field, is why I use this text with undergraduate psychology majors, doctoral students, and students in allied health care professions. It is remarkable how much each level of learner benefits from this one text. - Deborah Pollack, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology, Utica University, Utica, NY; Clinical Assistant Professor, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY Engaging, comprehensive, and accessible, Helping Skills integrates theory, research, and clinical examples to stimulate beginning helpers amp rsquo development. This field-tested, evidence-based approach empowers helpers to grow through scaffolded role-plays, challenging questions, and reflective exercises. It is the preeminent method of skills training in counseling and psychotherapy. - Janet L. Muse-Burke, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology and Counseling, Marywood University, Scranton, PA Helping Skills, Sixth Edition is an essential resource for budding professionals in the counseling field, offering a wealth of updated interactive features that enhance learning. Through a rich blend of updated case examples, self-reflection exercises, and role-play activities, this edition embraces a broad spectrum of diversity and provides a practical, hands-on approach to developing effective helping skills. With its innovative shift from a stage-based to a goal-based model and incorporation of the latest empirical research, this text expertly guides students in tailoring interventions to meet the unique needs of their clients. - Tony Rousmaniere, PsyD, President and Program Director, Marriage and Family Therapy Program, Sentio University, Los Angeles, CA

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 25 journal articles, more than 75 book chapters, and 4 books, including Dream Work in Therapy (2 4), and Consensual Qualitative Research (2 2), and Meaning in Life (2 8).
 
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 amp rsquo 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.

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