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Exercises in Helping Skills : A Training Manual to Accompany the Skilled Helper (6th)

by: EGAN

Exercises in Helping Skills : A Training Manual to Accompany the Skilled Helper (6th)

by: EGAN

ISBN 13:
9780534350574
ISBN 10:
0534350577
Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 06/09/1997
Publisher: Brooks Cole
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Summary

Written-by-Gerard Egan, this manual parallels the three-stage model for intervention found in The Skilled Helper, Sixth Edition, also by Gerard Egan (see page 19). It allows readers to practice communication skills and each of the steps of the model before using them in actual face-to-face helping interactions.

Introduction to the Exercises

(5)

PART ONE: LAYING THE GROUNDWORK

(9)

Introduction

(3)

Understanding What Helping Is All About

(1)

Problems and Opportunities

(2)

Strengths and Soft Spots in My Life

(1)

Overview of the Helping Model

(3)

The Current State of Affairs---Clarification of the Key Issues Calling for Change

(1)

The Preferred Scenario---Helping Clients Determine What They Need and Want

(1)

Strategies for Action---Helping Clients Discover How to Get What They Need and Want

(1)

Client Action: The Heart of the Helping Process

(1)

Client-Focused Helping

(1)

The Helping Relationship: Values in Action

(3)

What If I Where a Client?

(1)

Your Preliminary Statement of Values

(2)

PART TWO: BASIC COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR HELPING

(44)

Attending, Listening, and Understanding

(10)

Exercise in Attending: Being Visibly Tuned in to the Client

(2)

Your Attending Behaviors in Everyday Life

(1)

Observing and Giving Feedback on Quality of Presence

(1)

Exercise in Active Listening

(2)

Listening to Your Own Feelings and Emotions

(1)

Listening to Experiences, Behaviors, and the Feelings and Emotions They Generate

(6)

Listening to Core Messages

(5)

The Shadow Side of Listening

(1)

Basic Empathy

(17)

Communicating Understanding: Exercises in Basic Empathy

(17)

Identifying Core Messages

(3)

Using a Formula to Express Empathy

(5)

Using Your Own Words to Express Empathy

(5)

Empathy with Clients Facing Dilemmas

(2)

The Practice of Empathy in Everyday Life

(1)

The Art of Probing and Summarizing

(17)

Problem and Opportunity Clarity

(4)

Speaking Concretely About Problems

(2)

Speaking Concretely About Unused Opportunities

(2)

Probes

(10)

Probing for Key Issues and Clarity

(3)

Combining Empathy with Probes

(7)

Summarizing

(3)

Summarizing as a Way of Providing Focus

(3)

PART THREE: STAGE I OF THE HELPING MODEL AND ADVANCED COMMUNICATION SKILLS

(53)

Helping Clients Tell Their Stories

(11)

Preparing to Tell Your Story---Problems

(2)

Preparing to Tell Your Story---Unused Opportunities

(2)

Helping One Another Tell Your Stories

(1)

Giving Feedback to Self and Others

(6)

Linking Storytelling to Action

(4)

Reluctant and Resistant Clients

(3)

My Own Reluctance

(1)

My Own Experience of Resistance

(2)

The Nature of Challenging--Helping Clients Challenge Themselves

(9)

Reviewing Some Basic Developmental Tasks

(5)

Identifying Different Areas Needing Challenge

(4)

Specific Challenging Skills

(20)

Advanced Empathy: The Message behind the Message

(9)

Advanced Accurate Empathy---Hunches About Oneself

(2)

The Distinction Between Basic and Advanced Empathy

(6)

Information Sharing: From New Perspectives to Action

(6)

Information Leading to New Perspectives and Action

(4)

Challenging Normative Dishonesties in One's Own Life

(2)

Helper Self-Disclosure

(1)

Experiences of Mine That Might Be Helpful to Others

(1)

Immediacy: Exploring Relationships

(4)

Responding to Situations Calling for Immediacy

(2)

Immediacy with the Other Members of Your Training Group

100

(1)

The Wisdom of Challenging

101

(4)

Effective Versus Ineffective Challenge

101

(1)

Challenging One's Own Strengths

102

(2)

Tentativeness in the Use of Challenging Skills

104

(1)

The Challenge Round Robin

104

(1)

Leverage: Helping Clients Work on the Right Things

105

(6)

Myself as a Decision Maker

105

(1)

Screening Problems

106

(1)

Choosing Issues That Make a Difference

106

(2)

Pulling Stage I Together

108

(3)

Counseling Yourself: An Exercise in Stage I

108

(3)

PART FOUR: STAGE II: HELPING CLIENTS DETERMINE WHAT THEY NEED AND WANT

111

(31)

Helping Clients Create a Better Future

111

(1)

What Do You Need and Want? Possibilities for a Better Future

112

(12)

Problems and Opportunities in the Social Settings of Life

112

(3)

Brainstorming Possibilities for a Better Future---Cases

115

(7)

Becoming an Effective Helper

122

(1)

Helping Another Develop Possibilities for a Better Future

123

(1)

What Do You Really Want? Moving from Possibilities to Choices

124

(12)

Turning Possibilities into Goals---A Case

125

(1)

Turning Possibilities into Personal Goals

126

(1)

Shaping Goals---Making Sure That They Are Workable

127

(1)

Shaping---Making Goals Specific

128

(5)

Helping Learning Partners Set Workable Goals

133

(1)

Relating Goal Choice to Action

134

(2)

Commitment-What Are You Willing to Pay for What You Want?

136

(6)

Managing Your Commitment to Your Goals

137

(1)

Reviewing Costs Versus Benefits in Choosing Goals

138

(2)

Competing Agendas

140

(2)

PART FIVE: STAGE III: HELPING CLIENTS WORK FOR WHAT THEY NEED AND WANT

142

(22)

Strategies for Action--What Do I Need to Do to Get What I Need and Want?

141

(11)

Life Skills

142

(10)

Assessing Critical Skills for Effective Living

143

(3)

Brainstorming Action Strategies for Your Own Goals

146

(2)

Action Strategies: Putting Yourself in the Client's Shoes

148

(2)

Helping Others Brainstorm Strategies for Action

150

(2)

Best-Fit Strategies--What Strategies Are Best for Me?

152

(5)

A Preliminary Scan of Best-Fit Strategies for Yourself

152

(1)

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

153

(1)

Using Criteria to Choose Best-Fit Strategies

154

(1)

Choosing Best-Fit Strategies: The Balance-Sheet Method

155

(2)

Helping Clients Make Plans--What Kind of Plan Will Help Me Get What I Need and Want?

157

(7)

Developing Your Own Action Plan

157

(1)

Sharing and Shaping Plans

158

(1)

Formulating Plans for the Major Steps of a Complex Goal

159

(2)

Developing the Resources to Implement Your Plans

161

(3)

PART SIX: THE ACTION ARROW: Making It All Happen

164

(11)

Making It All Happen: Helping Clients Get What They Want and Need

164

(11)

Exploring Your Own Action Orientation

165

(1)

Exploring the Self-Starter in Yourself

166

(1)

Learning from Failures

167

(2)

Identifying and Coping with Obstacles to Action

169

(3)

acilitating Forces at the Service of Action

172

(1)

Dealing with Restraining Forces at the Service of Action

173

(2)

Using Supportive and Challenging Relationships at the Service of Action

175

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