Communication Skills in Helping Relationships : A Framework for Facilitating Personal Growth by Vonda Long

Communication Skills in Helping Relationships : A Framework for Facilitating Personal Growth by Vonda Long

Vonda Long's fresh approach to the counseling process focuses on the important and essential communication skills necessary for all potential counselors. Her emphasis on personal growth makes the book engaging and helps students understand themselves as they practice and learn how to become thoughtful and empathic helpers. The book is organized into an operational, structural framework for the helping process that incorporates outcome and process goals, philosophy of growth, communication, and facilitative skills. The author does not purport hers be the only possible framework, only a suggested framework that has been used successfully. The framework is based on the 3 R's: Rights, Respect, and Responsibility.

PART ONE: PURPOSE AND GOALS OF THE HELPING RELATIONSHIP1. Counseling and Helping Relationships. 2. Human Dimensions and Counseling Orientations. 3. Purpose and Goals of the Helping Relationship: Facilitation of Growth Toward Psychological Health. PART TWO: A SYSTEM OF OUTCOME AND PROCESS GOALS FOR CLIENT, HELPER, AND HELPING RELATIONSHIP. 4. Client Outcome Goals: A System for Personal Growth. 5. Helper Outcome Goals: A System for Helping Skills. 6. Helping Relationship Outcome Goals: A System for a Growth Environment. 7. Helper Personal Growth: The Counselor as Client. PART THREE: A STAGE STRUCTURE FOR THE HELPING PROCESS: PRE-STAGE ATTITUDES OF RIGHTS, RESPECT, AND RESPONSIBILITY. 8. Underlying Beliefs and Personal Growth: Rights, Self-Respect, and Self-Responsibility. 9. Attitudinal Goals in Facilitating Personal Growth: Rights, Respect, and Responsibility. 10. Rights versus Control. 11. Respect versus Judgmentalness. 12. Appropriate Responsibility versus Rescuing and Blaming. PART FOUR: A STAGE STRUCTURE FOR THE HELPING PROCESS: COMMUNICATION COMPONENTS AND MODEL. 13. Communicating to Facilitate Self-Understanding. 14. Components of Communication: Listening, Responding, Expressing. 15. Mechanisms of Communication: Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior, Statements, and Questions. 16. A Five-Step Communication Model. PART FIVE: A STAGE STRUCTURE FOR THE HELPING PROCESS: STAGES AND SKILLS. 17. Stage 1: The Presenting Problem. 18. Stage 2: Underlying Issues. 19. Stage 3: Direction and Change. Epilogue: The Framework in Review.

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ISBN 13	9780534338695
ISBN 10	0534338690
Title	Communication Skills in Helping Relationships : A Framework for Facilitating Personal Growth
Author	Vonda Long
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cengage Learning, Inc
Year published	1995-07-11
Number of pages	257
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