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The Skilled Helper: A Problem-Management and Opportunity-Development Approach to Helping, 10th Edition

Gerard Egan

  • Copyright 2014
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The Skilled Helper: A Problem-Management and Opportunity-Development Approach to Helping 10th Edition by Gerard Egan
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Overview

Now in its tenth edition, Egan’s THE SKILLED HELPER has taught thousands of students a proven, step-by-step counseling process that teaches them how to become more confident and competent helpers. Internationally recognized for its successful problem-management and opportunity development approach to effective helping, the text emphasizes the collaborative nature of the therapist-client relationship and uses a practical, three-stage model that drives client problem-managing and opportunity-developing action. As they read, students also gain a feeling for the complexity inherent in any helping relationship. In this tenth edition, Egan now makes use of his version of the “common factors” approach, which gives new meaning and vitality to the book’s themes, as well as to the use of the problem-management model to organize and give coherence to those themes.

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Meet the Authors

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Gerard Egan

Gerard Egan, Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Organizational Studies at Loyola University of Chicago. He has written over a dozen books and currently writes in the areas of communication, counselling, business and organization effectiveness, management development, the management of innovation and change, leadership and organization politics and culture. He also conducts workshops in these areas and is a consultant at a variety of companies and institutions worldwide.

What's New

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  • The tenth edition’s new approach revolves around Egan’s version of the “common factors” approach, which he calls the “ingredients of successful therapy.” These themes are explained in the totally redone first chapter and then permeate the rest of the book.
  • In order to reflect the adjustments to the book’s new approach, the book has been extensively reorganized and restructured, and most chapters have been rewritten for clarity and cohesion. Part I deals with the new approach, the importance of the helping relationship, and the values that drive the entire helping process. Part II focuses exclusively on the communication skills therapists need to engage in a collaborative outcome-focused dialogue with clients. Part III deals in detail with the problem-management and opportunity-development approach.
  • Egan’s new approach underscores the importance of the client-directed, outcome-informed (CDOI) movement in the helping professions. Thus, the book has a heightened emphasis on clients and all that they bring with them to the therapeutic encounter, as well as the importance of “keeping the client in the driver’s seat” throughout the helping process.
  • Egan’s version of what he refers to as the Standard Problem Management Model--which is found directly or indirectly in practically every form of therapy--now organizes all the skills, methods, and themes of successful helping.
  • Egan has heightened the book’s focus on two-way feedback between client and helper, thus emphasizing the importance of feedback as one of the key ingredients of successful therapy.

Features

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  • THE SKILLED HELPER focuses on “positive psychology” and includes material on problems as opportunities, an emphasis on hope and optimism, a self-healing approach to client-helper collaboration, the place of “motivational interviewing” and encouragement in helping, and a section on client resilience.
  • The author introduces his practical three-stage model in Chapters 1 and 3, which outline the nature and goals of helping, the helping model, and the values that drive helping.
  • THE SKILLED HELPER emphasizes the collaborative nature by focusing on the client and the counselor in the relationship, with vivid examples that show helping skills in action in a vast array of possible relationships and settings, from correctional institutes and hospitals to private practice.
  • Egan integrates the most relevant aspects of different theoretical orientations (humanistic, cognitive, cognitive-behavioral, and solution-focused) into a pragmatic approach to helping.
  • Skill-building and progressive exercises provide students with the opportunity to apply the concepts they have learned throughout the text. For additional study help, you may offer your students the companion book, EXERCISES IN HELPING SKILLS, which is aligned with the text chapters and includes self-development items.

Table of Contents

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Part I: LAYING THE GROUNDWORK.
1. The Ingredients of Successful Helping.
2. The Helping Relationship and the Values That Drive It.
Part II: THE THERAPEUTIC DIALOGUE: COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIP-BUILDING SKILLS.
3. Empathic Presence: Tuning In and Listening.
4. Empathic Responding: Working at Mutual Understanding.
5. The Art of Probing and Summarizing.
6. Facilitating Client Self-Challenge: From New Perspectives to New Behavior.
7. Helper Self-Challenge.
Part III: THE SKILLED HELPER PROBLEM MANAGEMENT AND OPPORTUNITY-DEVELOPMENT APPROACH TO HELPING.
8. An Introduction to the Problem-Management Process.
9. Help Clients Tell Their Stories: Stage I, Task I-A.
10. The Real Story and The Right Story: Stage I, Task I-B and Task I-C.
11. Designing for the Future: Stage II, Task II-A.
12. Goals, Outcomes, Impact: Stage II, Task II-B and Task II-C.
13. Planning the Way Forward: Stage III, Task III-A, Task III-B, and Task III-C.
14. Implementation: Making It All Happen.

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  • ISBN-10: 128560394X
  • ISBN-13: 9781285603940
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Cengage provides a range of supplements that are updated in coordination with the main title selection. For more information about these supplements, contact your Learning Consultant.

FOR INSTRUCTORS

Student Workbook Exercises for Egan's The Skilled Helper, 10th

ISBN: 9781285067537
Paralleling Egan’s THE SKILLED HELPER, this manual allows students to complete self-development exercises as well as practice communication skills and each of the steps of the model in private before using them in actual face-to-face helping interactions with others.

FOR STUDENTS

Student Workbook Exercises for Egan's The Skilled Helper, 10th

ISBN: 9781285067537
Paralleling Egan’s THE SKILLED HELPER, this manual allows students to complete self-development exercises as well as practice communication skills and each of the steps of the model in private before using them in actual face-to-face helping interactions with others.