Teach the art of helping through a practical, relationship-focused approach

Stop and Reflect sections within each chapter provide students with opportunities to pause, integrate the concepts and ideas, and consider their reaction to real cases and situations.
Group Exercises provide additional reinforcement, giving students the chance to practice the skills they’ve just learned with classmates.
Journal Starters allow readers to test new ideas and reflect on conflicts and challenges they develop as helpers that allow them to continue their learning between classes.
UPDATED: Culture Check sections highlight issues of culture in research and in personal experiences as they relate to helping skills.
NEW: A new chapter, “The Cultural Climate and the Therapeutic Relationship,” (Chapter 3), explores cultural issues, religion/spirituality and gender dimensions.
UPDATED: Expanded coverage on the therapeutic relationship and new research that supports maintaining and monitoring the client/helper alliance is included in Chapter 2.
UPDATED: Additional information on using basic helping skills with children is included in Chapter 10.
NEW: More than 100 new references for further reading keep students up to date on evidence-based helping techniques.
UPDATED: Specific points of practice are called out in the eText so that students can watch a video demonstrating the skill they are learning as they read about it, or complete written exercises and receive feedback on their answers.

This title is also available digitally via MyLab Counseling, which includes the Pearson eText.

MyLab™ is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools and a flexible platform, MyLab personalizes the learning experience and improves results for each student. MyLab Counseling organizes all assignments around essential learning outcomes and the CACREP standards — enabling easy course alignment and reporting. Learn more about MyLab Counseling.

Deliver trusted content: You deserve teaching materials that meet your own high standards for your course. That’s why we partner with highly respected authors to develop interactive content and course-specific resources that you can trust–and that keep your students engaged.

Video Exercises feature videos of actual client-therapist sessions or high-quality role play scenarios featuring expert counselors. Students are then guided in their analysis of the videos through a series of short-answer questions. These exercises help students develop the techniques and decision-making skills they need to be effective counselors before they are in a critical situation with a real client.

Application Exercises

Video Analysis Exercises prompt students to watch the authentic counseling video and use the accompanying rubric to guide their analysis. Timestamp and commenting tools allow them to easily annotate the video and connect their observations to counseling concepts they learned in the text.

Empower each learner: Each student learns at a different pace. Personalized learning pinpoints the precise areas where each student needs practice, giving all students the support they need–when and where they need it–to be successful.
Teach your course your way: Your course is unique. So whether you’d like to build your own assignments, teach multiple sections, or set prerequisites, MyLab gives you the flexibility to easily create your course to fit your needs.

Pearson eText is a simple-to-use, mobile-optimized, personalized reading experience available within MyLab Counseling. It lets students highlight and take notes, all in one place — even when offline. Seamlessly integrated videos and other rich media engage students and give them access to the help they need, when they need it. Educators can easily customize the table of contents and share their own notes with students so they see the connection between their eText and what they learn in class.
The Video Library provides more than 600 video clips of actual client-therapist sessions and high-quality role plays in a database organized by topic and searchable by keyword. The Video Library includes every video clip from the MyLab Counseling courses plus additional videos from Pearson's extensive library of footage. Instructors can create additional assignments around the videos or use them for in-class activities. Students can expand their observation experiences to include other course areas and increase the amount of time they spend watching expert counselors in action.

Improve student results: When you teach with MyLab, student performance often improves. That’s why instructors have chosen MyLab for over 15 years, touching the lives of over 50 million students.

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