Effective Helping: Interviewing and Counseling Techniques (PSY 642 Introduction to Psychotherapy Practice)

Barbara Okun's practical introduction to counseling has helped thousands of readers become effective and empathetic helpers. In this edition, Okun is joined by a new co-author, Ricki Kantrowitz, who brings different experience and expertise to this respected book. Logical, easy-to-understand, and applicable, EFFECTIVE HELPING: INTERVIEWING AND COUNSELING TECHNIQUES, Seventh Edition continues to use a unique framework to help readers enhance their self-awareness and their understanding of contemporary forces. The book is infused with many case examples, dialogues, tables, and experiential exercises. Okun and Kantrowitz help readers develop basic helping skills based on empathic responsive listening, introduce them to theoretical principles, and enable them to integrate theory and practice in a practical and effective way appropriate to their level of training. The learning-by-practice format enables active integration.Barbara F. Okun is the author of 'Effective Helping: Interviewing and Counseling Techniques (PSY 642 Introduction to Psychotherapy Practice)', published 2007 under ISBN 9780495006251 and ISBN 0495006254.