One Life at a Time: Helping Skills and Interventionsis a student-centered, inexpensive experientially based textbook for beginning courses in counseling and therapy. Written in Kottler's personal, easy-to-read and engaging style, this text covers all the basic skills and core interventions that beginners need to be taught in order to begin seeing clients. Students are encouraged to explore self-reflection and make connections between the material and their prior knowledge and experience; once internalized, these ideas and skills can be applied to one's life as well as one's work. Divided in to three parts, the first discusses the individual, social and cultural factors that need to be considered when treating clients and how to apply the basic counseling theories, skills and interventions. The second examines techniques on how therapists should monitor themselves, including skills of assessment, diagnosis, and facilitating action. The last part covers family therapy skills, relationship skills,group and counsultation skills, and supervision. Additional features include: *guidance through a self-assessment process that helps them examine their personal values and moral choices as they affect clinical behavior *case examples and first person accounts of applied skills and intervetions *highlights the internal process of therapists to increase tolerance to ambiguity, complexity and uncertainty *combined treatment of core skills and issues related to treatment planning *integration of diversity issues at all points to underscore the importance of adapting skills to fit the needs of clients *accompanying online instructor's manual.
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