Counseling Strategies and Interventions for Professional Helpers, Global Edition, 9th edition

Counseling Strategies and Interventions for Professional Helpers is appropriate for upper-level undergraduate and entry-level graduate course students and counselors.

A practical text that provides a look at basic helping skills used in a variety of disciplines and a number of issues common to helping relationships, processes, and interviews.

This pragmatic text describes basic helping skills used in a variety of disciplines, as well as a number of issues common to helping relationships, processes, and interviews. Suitable for both upper-level undergraduate and entry-level graduate students, the text focuses on skill acquisition, and includes a number of clinical cases and application exercises for promoting skill development.

The new Ninth Edition features a brand new expanded section on the basic helping skills (attending, listening, and action), as well as an additional new chapter contributed by Dr. Beth Robinson, Acadia University, on professional development and issues facing new helpers. Additional content new to this edition covers counseling in military settings, communication with LGBTQ clients, communication with immigrant and refugee clients, assessment of key components of client problems, SMART goals, and mindfulness interventions.

MyCounselingLab^® not included. Students, if MyCounselingLab is a recommended/mandatory component of the course, please ask your instructor for the correct ISBN and course ID. MyCounselingLab should only be purchased when required by an instructor. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.

MyCounselingLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with the text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students see key concepts demonstrated through video clips, practice what they learn, test their understanding, and receive feedback to guide their learning and ensure they master key learning outcomes.

This title is a Pearson Global Edition. The Editorial team at Pearson has worked closely with educators around the world to include content which is especially relevant to students outside the United States.

Counseling Strategies and Interventions for Professional Helpers text features and benefits include:

• Students see how to apply the concepts and skills in each chapter through a number of helpful pedagogical aids, including:
  • Application exercises and suggestions for role plays bring life to the concepts.
  • Case examples help students visualize how skills are used with diverse clients.
  • Reflective Questions help students develop critical thinking skills about important issues in helping.
• NEW! Students learn, acquire, and see how to apply basic skills with clients through the text’s expanded coverage of three critical basic skills:
  • NEW! Attending Skills (new Chapter 4).
  • NEW! Listening Skills (new Chapter 5).
  • NEW! Action Skills (new Chapter 6).
• NEW! Students get practical help for coping with challenges in professional growth and transitions such as ethical challenges, supervision challenges, and professional development in a new Chapter 10, Considerations and Challenges for Beginning Helpers.
• NEW! Help for dealing with issues facing vets returning from deployment is provided in a new section on counseling in military settings (Ch. 1).
• NEW! Suggestions for developing more effective communication with clients from other countries— including immigrants and refugees—is presented in Chapter 3.
• Ideas for developing awareness of sensitive and non-homophobic communication with LGBTQ clients is presented in Chapter 3.
• Students get tools and strategies for assessing key components of client problems and issues in Chapter 8.
• A framework to use in developing outcome goals for change with clients is presented in Chapter 8’s coverage of SMART goals in counseling.
• Students see ways to use mindfulness interventions with clients in Chapter 9.
• Genograms presented in Chapter 9 give students a visual tool for assessing families and systems.

MyCounselingLab^® not included. Students, if MyCounselingLab is a recommended/mandatory component of the course, please ask your instructor for the correct ISBN and course ID. MyCounselingLab should only be purchased when required by an instructor. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.

• Learning Outcomes and Standards measure student results. MyCounselingLab organizes all assignments around essential learning outcomes and national standards for counselors.
• Video- and Case-based Assignments develop decision-making skills. Video- and Case-based Assignments introduce students to a broader range of clients, and therefore a broader range of presenting problems, than they will encounter in their own pre-professional clinical experiences. Students watch videos of actual client-therapist sessions or high-quality role-play scenarios featuring expert counselors. They 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.
• Licensure Quizzes help students prepare for certification. Automatically graded, multiple-choice Licensure Quizzes help students prepare for their certification examinations, master foundational course content, and improve their performance in the course.
• Video Library off

Counseling Strategies and Interventions for Professional Helpers key content changes include:

• Students learn, acquire, and see how to apply basic skills with clients through the text’s expanded coverage of three critical basic skills:
  • Attending Skills (new Chapter 4).
  • Listening Skills (new Chapter 5).
  • Action Skills (new Chapter 6).
• Students get practical help for coping with challenges in professional growth and transitions such as ethical challenges, supervision challenges, and professional development in a new Chapter 10, Considerations and Challenges for Beginning Helpers.
• Help for dealing with issues facing vets returning from deployment is provided in a new section on counseling in military settings (Ch. 1).
• Suggestions for developing more effective communication with clients from other countries– including immigrants and refugees–is presented in Chapter 3.

MyCounselingLab^® not included. Students, if MyCounselingLab is a recommended/mandatory component of the course, please ask your instructor for the correct ISBN and course ID. MyCounselingLab should only be purchased when required by an instructor. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.

• Learning Outcomes and Standards measure student results. MyCounselingLab organizes all assignments around essential learning outcomes and national standards for counselors.
• Video- and Case-based Assignments develop decision-making skills. Video- and Case-based Assignments introduce students to a broader range of clients, and therefore a broader range of presenting problems, than they will encounter in their own pre-professional clinical experiences. Students watch videos of actual client-therapist sessions or high-quality role-play scenarios featuring expert counselors. They 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.
• Licensure Quizzes help students prepare for certification. Automatically graded, multiple-choice Licensure Quizzes help students prepare for their certification examinations, master foundational course content, and improve their performance in the course.
• Video Library offers a wealth of observation opportunities. The Video Library provides more than 400 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 MyCounselingLab 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.
• Comprehensive online course content. Filled with a wealth of content that is tightly integrated with your textbook, MyLab lets you easily add, remove, or modify existing instructional material. You can also add your own course materials to suit the needs of your students or department. In short, MyLab lets you teach exactly as you'd like.
• Robust gradebook tracking. The online gradebook automatically tracks your students' results on tests, homework, and practice exercises and gives you control over managing results and calculating grades. The gradebook provides a number of flexible grading options, including exporting grades to a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel.