One Life at a Time Helping Skills and Interventions 1st Edition – PDF/EPUB Version Downloadable

Refreshing, highly practical, and student-centred, this dynamic text covers all the basic skills and core interventions helpers-in-training need to know in order to begin seeing clients. Kottler and Brew use a broad model of helping to acquaint students with a myriad of clinical styles in a variety of settings. Case examples, first-person accounts, homework assignments, and a series of reflective exercises illustrate how to apply these skills to the helper’s own life and in working with others … One Life at a Time. Important features of this text include: * Approaches to assessment and diagnosis of client problems * Attention to needs of individuals within diverse social, ethnic, and cultural contexts * Vital background information of the major conceptual frameworks * Useful self-monitoring techniques * Numerous aspects of building and maintaining relationships * Practical ways to maintain progress and evaluate results