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In this fifth edition of her best‑selling textbook, Clara Hill presents an updated model of essential helping skills for undergraduate and first‑year graduate students. Hill’s model consists of three stages—exploration, insight, and action—in which helpers guide clients in exploring their thoughts and feelings, discovering the origins and consequences of maladaptive thoughts and behaviors, and acting on those discoveries to create positive long‑term change.   This book synthesizes the author’s extensive clinical and classroom experience into an easy‑to‑read guide to the helping process. Aspiring helping professionals will learn the theoretical principles behind the three‑stage model and fundamental clinical skills for working with diverse clients. Hill also challenges students to think critically about the helping process, their own biases, and what approach best aligns with their therapeutic skills and goals.   New to this edition are: detailed guidelines for developing and revising case conceptualizations, expanded coverage of cultural awareness, updated case examples that reflect greater diversity among clients and helpers, and additional strategies for addressing therapeutic challenges.

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Grounded in an illuminating conceptual model and built to develop trainees’ awareness, skills, agency, and self-efficacy, there is simply no better book. Having reached its fifth edition, this evidence-based classic has not only passed the test of time, it will keep guiding future generations of therapists. -- Louis Castonguay, PhD, Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Hands down the best package for teaching (and learning) interviewing, helping, and case management skills! The exercises, videos, and the resource guide brilliantly integrate what students must know. A master teaches neophyte helpers self-awareness, cultural sensitivity, and indispensable skills in a practical and sequential manner. -- John C. Norcross, PhD, ABPP, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA Students will not find a more sensitive, thoughtful, and useful guide to learning the intricacies of this extraordinary profession. -- Barry A. Farber, PhD, Professor, Clinical Psychology Program, Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY Hill’s helping skills training is the singular choice for students and early practitioners who wish to identify therapeutic interventions and learn how to apply these tools in different situations. While “technical,” Hill’s helping skills theory is compatible with any popular treatment approach and is flexible enough to allow readers the freedom to experiment and find their own way to become expert psychotherapists. -- Timothy Anderson, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, Ohio University, Athens

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Clara E. Hill, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Maryland. Her awards include the Leona Tyler Award, the Distinguished Psychologist Award, the Distinguished Research Career Award, and the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award. Her major research interests are helping skills, the psychotherapy process, training and supervising therapists, dream work, meaning in life, and qualitative research. Dr. Hill has published over 220 journal articles, more than 75 book chapters, and 14 books, including Dream Work in Therapy (2004), and Consensual Qualitative Research (2012), and Meaning in Life (2018). She lives in Silver Spring, MD.

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