Skills and Techniques for Human Service Professionals by Edward S Neukrug

Skills and Techniques for Human Service Professionals by Edward S Neukrug

This is a unique hands-on guide that helps students understand the helping relationship from a human service perspective. This goal of this text is to offer students a thorough understanding of the attitudes, techniques and skills, and major treatment issues that are unique to the helping relationship of the human service professional.

PART I: THE COUNSELING ENVIRONMENT1. Characteristics of the Effective Helper. 2. Entering the Agency. PART II: HELPING SKILLS. 3. Stages of the Helping Relationship: Theory, Process, and Skills. 4. Foundational Skills. 5. Commonly Used Skills. 6. Information Gathering. 7. Helper-Centered Skills. PART III: TREATMENT ISSUES. 8. Case Management. 9. Multicultural Counseling: Issues and Techniques. 10. Ethical and Professional Issues. Appendices.

Edward S. Neukrug is the former Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling and currently Professor of Counseling and Human Services at Old Dominion University, Dr. Edward S. Neukrug has taught counselor education and human services for over thirty years. In addition, he has worked as a substance abuse counselor, a counselor at a crisis center, an outpatient therapist at a mental health center, an associate school psychologist, a school counselor, and as a private practice psychologist and licensed professional counselor. Dr. Neukrug has written dozens of articles and chapters in books, has authored eight books, and was the editor of THE SAGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THEORY IN COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY. Books he has written include: EXPERIENCING THE WORLD OF THE COUNSELOR: A WORKBOOK FOR COUNSELOR EDUCATORS AND STUDENTS (4th Edition); COUNSELING THEORY AND PRACTICE; SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR HUMAN SERVICE PROFESSIONALS; and ESSENTIALS OF TESTING AND ASSESSMENT FOR COUNSELORS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS (3rd Edition). He has also developed DVDs that demonstrate counseling skills and techniques, an interactive website where users can "meet" major theorists of counseling and psychotherapy and learn more about them and their theories (www.odu.edu/~enekrug), and an interactive survey where one can identify his or her view of human nature (http://ww2.odu.edu/~enekrug/therapists/survey.html).

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ISBN 13	9780534567682
ISBN 10	0534567681
Title	Skills and Techniques for Human Service Professionals
Author	Edward S Neukrug
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cengage Learning, Inc
Year published	2001-08-24
Number of pages	240
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