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Exercises in Helping Skills for Egan’s The Skilled Helper: A Problem-Management and Opportunity-Development Approach to Helping, 7th

by: Egan, Gerard

Exercises in Helping Skills for Egan’s The Skilled Helper: A Problem-Management and Opportunity-Development Approach to Helping, 7th

by: Egan, Gerard

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9780534367329
ISBN 10:
0534367321
Edition: 7th
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 07/16/2001
Publisher: Brooks Cole
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Summary

Written by Gerard Egan, with assistance from Rich McGourty, this manual parallels the main text, THE SKILLED HELPER, Seventh Edition, and allows students to practice communication skills and each of the steps of the model in private before using them in actual face-to-face helping interactions with others. In this edition, self-development items have been added to every chapter. To bundle with the text use this ISBN: 0534693687

Introduction to the Exercises

(4)

PART I. LAYING THE GROUNDWORK

(14)

Introduction

(5)

Understanding What Helping Is All About

(1)

Preparing to Play the Role of Client: Strengths and Soft Spots in My Life

(1)

Turning Problems into Opportunities

(1)

Strengths and Soft Spots

(1)

Spotting Unused Opportunities

(1)

An Overview of the Helping Process

(6)

Explaining What Helping Involves

(3)

Preparing to Tell Your Story -Problems

(1)

Preparing to Tell Your Story -Unused Opportunities

(2)

The Helping Relationship: Values Inaction

(3)

What If I Were a Client?

(1)

Your Preliminary Statement of Values

(1)

Building and Maintaining Opportunities

(2)

Part II. THE BASIC SKILLS OF THERAPEUTIC COMMUNICATION

(48)

Communication Skills I-Dialogue and Visibly Tuning in

(4)

Understanding Four Requirements of True Dialogs

(1)

Dialogue in Everyday Life

(1)

Visibly Tuning in to Others in Everyday Dialogues

(2)

Observing and Giving Feedback on Quality of Presence

(1)

Active Listening

(14)

Listening to Yourself as a Problem Solver

(1)

Listening to Your Own Feelings and Emotions

(1)

Processing What You Hear -Thoughtful Listening

(1)

Listening for Core Messages

(4)

Listening for Reasons, Implications, and Feelings

(3)

Listening to Key Opportunities

(2)

Using Context for Thoughtful Processing

(1)

Your Listening and Processing Style and Its Shadow Side

(2)

Seeking Understanding: Sharing Empathic Highlights

(13)

Identifying Core Messages in Clients' Stories

(3)

Using a Formula to Express Empathic Highlights

(4)

Using Your Own Words in Empathic Highlights

(3)

Empathic Highlights with Clients Facing Dilemmas

(2)

Sharing Empathic Highlights in Everyday Life

(1)

Using Probes and Summarizing

(16)

Speaking Concretely about Problems

(1)

Speaking Concretely about Unused Opportunities

(2)

Probing for Key Issues and Clarity

(3)

Empathic Highlights and Two Kinds of Probes

(3)

Probing for Action

(2)

Using Probes to Help Others Communicate Better

(1)

Summarizing as a Way of Providing Focus

(1)

Helping Others Engage in Dialog

(3)

Part III. STAGE I OF THE HELPING MODEL AND ADVANCED COMMUNICATION SKILLS

(48)

Step I-A Helping Clients Tell their Stories

(5)

Helping One Another to Tell Your Stories

(1)

Talking Productively about the Past

(1)

Linking Storytelling to Action

(3)

Taking Action in Your Own Life

(1)

Managing Reluctance and Resistance

(5)

My Own Reluctance

(1)

My Own Experience of Resistance

(1)

Your Own Ways of Causing Resistance

(1)

Dealing with Resisting Clients

(2)

Step I-B-Helping Clients Challenge Themselves

(9)

Reviewing Some Basic Developmental Tasks

(5)

Identifying Different Areas Needing Challenge

(4)

The Skills of Effective Challenging

(19)

Advanced Accurate Empathy-Hunches about Yourself

(2)

Advanced Versus Basic Empathic Highlights

(5)

Information Leading to New Perspectives and Action

(4)

Challenging Normative Dishonesties in One's Own Life

(2)

Experiences of Mine That Might Be Helpful to Others

100

(2)

Responding to Situations Calling for Immediacy

102

(2)

Immediacy with the Other Members of Your Training Group

104

(1)

The Wisdom of Challenging

105

(4)

Effective Versus Ineffective Challenge

105

(1)

Challenging One's Own Strengths

105

(2)

Tentativeness in the Use of Challenging Skills

107

(1)

The Challenge Round Robin

107

(2)

Step I-C-Leverage: Helping Clients Work on the Right Things

109

(6)

Myself as a Decision Maker

109

(1)

Screening Problems

109

(1)

Choosing Issues that Make a Difference

110

(1)

Counseling Yourself: An Exercise in Stage

111

(4)

PART IV. STAGE II OF THE HELPING MODEL

115

(30)

Introduction to Stage II-Solution-Focused Helping

115

(3)

The Value of Goal Setting

115

(1)

How Goal Oriented Are You?

115

(1)

Your Decision-Making Style

116

(2)

Step Ii A-Helping Clients Create a Better Future

118

(9)

Problems and Opportunities in the Social Settings of Life

118

(3)

Brainstorming Possibilities for a Better Future--Cases

121

(3)

My Potential as a Helper

124

(1)

Helping Another Develop Possibilities for a Better Future

125

(2)

Step II-B Making Choices

127

(12)

Turning Possibilities into Goals -A Case

127

(1)

Turning Personal Possibilities into Personal Goals

128

(1)

Helping Clients Turn Possibilities into Goals

129

(2)

Shaping -Making Goals Specific

131

(3)

Shaping Goals -Making Sure That They Are Workable

134

(1)

Helping Learning Partners Set Workable Goals

135

(1)

Relating Goal Choice to Action

136

(3)

Step II-C-Commitment to Goals

139

(6)

Managing Your Commitment to Your Goals

139

(2)

Reviewing Benefits Versus Costs in Choosing Goals

141

(1)

Competing Agendas

142

(3)

Part V. STAGE III OF THE HELPING MODEL

145

(20)

Step III-A Action Strategies

145

(9)

Assessing Critical Skills for Effective Living

145

(3)

Brainstorming Action Strategies for Your Own Goals

148

(2)

Action Strategies: Putting Yourself in the Client's Shoes

150

(2)

Helping Others Brainstorm Strategies for Action

152

(2)

Step III-B-Best Fit Strategies

154

(5)

A Preliminary Scan of Best-Fit Strategies for Yourself

154

(1)

Best-Fit Strategies: Putting Yourself in the Client's Shoes

155

(1)

Using Criteria to Choose Best-Fit Strategies

156

(1)

Choosing Best-Fit Strategies: The Balance-Sheet Method

157

(2)

Step III-C-Helping Clients Make Plans

159

(6)

Developing Your Own Action Plan

159

(1)

Sharing and Shaping Plans

160

(1)

Formulating Plans for the Major Steps of a Complex Goal

161

(2)

Developing the Resources to Implement Your Plans

163

(2)

Part VI. THE ACTION ARROW-MAKING IT ALL HAPPEN

165

The Action Arrow-Making it All Happen

165

Exploring Your Own Tendency to Procrastinate

166

Exploring the Self-Starter in Yourself

167

Learning from Failures

169

Identifying and Coping with Obstacles to Action

171

Identifying Facilitating Forces

173

Dealing with Restraining Forces

175

Using Supportive and Challenging Relationships

176

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Exercises in Helping Skills for Egan’s The Skilled Helper: A Problem-Management and Opportunity-Development Approach to Helping, 7th

Exercises in Helping Skills for Egan’s The Skilled Helper: A Problem-Management and Opportunity-Development Approach to Helping, 7th

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