The Helping Relationship: Process and Skills

by Lawrence M. Brammer and Ginger MacDonald

Book Overview

The Helping Relationship is a text for learning and teaching basic philosophy, helping skills, and processes that are essential grounding for most professions and for all human-contact occupations.

The Helping Relationship presents and illustrates skills in the order in which they are used in the helping process. The primary emphasis in the helping process is to promote self-help, such as coping competence, to solve one's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 020535520X
• ISBN13: 9780205355204
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Basic overview of helping skills for use in various settings

I'm currently a psychologist, and this book was assigned for one of my undergraduate courses in counseling techniques. It provides a basic overview of fundamental helping skills appropriate to a wide variety of situations. Particularly useful is the section on "Helping Skills for Understanding," which includes detailed explanations of the various skills which contribute to active listening. The information on problem-solving and other behavior strategies offer some utility as well, but the minimal attention given to more advanced behavioral skills does not do these areas justice. Similarly, the chapter on loss and crisis provides some useful information, but it also oversimplifies an extremely complex area. This book is best utilized as a basic introduction to helping strategies, and it would be useful to such populations as peer counselors, students, volunteers, etc.