The Helping Relationship: Process and SkillsThis is a text for teaching basic generic helping skills, their processes and philosophy. The book is applicable to students who will be helpers in professional settings of educational counselling, social work, nursing, medicine, law enforcement, business and education. The main theme is that the aim of helping others is to promote self-help, self-confidence, and empowerment, and to enable people to solve their own problems. |
Contents
Characteristics of Helpers | 27 |
The Helping Process | 51 |
Helping Skills for Understanding | 76 |
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