Helping Relationships: Basic Concepts for the Helping Professions

by Arthur W. Combs

Book Overview

A humanistic approach is used to cover basic concepts in helping. Text conveys pertinent concepts from modern psychology in an easy-to-read and understandable style, and shows the relevance of these... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0205150225
• ISBN13: 9780205150229
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Arthur Combs is the Best of the Best

If you are a member of the 'helping professions' you can truly give your professional calling a quantum leap with this book ... which is the summation of the life's work of a truly great educator. Teachers, Social Workers, Nurses, Psychologists, Priests and Sisters ... anyone who needs to facilitate change in another individual which requires effective decisions and behaviors in decisive, moment to moment ... face to face ... eyeball to eyeball interactions. What we 'see' is 'who' we are. Arthur Combs and his co-author William Purkey, will help you understand effectiveness comes from clarity in our understanding of our 'own' motivations and beliefs. This is an excellent book ... it is highly recommended. Buy it!