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1 online resource |
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Relationships in Counseling and the Counselor's Life; Table of Contents; Preface; An Unusual Collaboration and an Improbable Partnership; Overview of What (Mostly) Follows; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Part 1: Some Operating Assumptions About Relationships in Counseling; Chapter 1: What Do We Know, or Think We Know, About How Counseling Works?; First, a Little History; The Counseling Relationship and the Era of Accountability: Two Opposing Forces?; Components of Successful Counseling Relationships; Identification of Common Factors |
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What Makes a Difference in Promoting Change in Counseling?Common Factors and Outcome Variance; Why Don't You Believe Us?; Chapter 2: What Counselors Believe Matters Most-and Why Their Clients Disagree; Trying to Figure Out What Happened and Why; It's My Theoretical Orientation!; OK, So It's Not My Theory . . .; So What Is Theory For If It Is Less Important Than We Think?; "It's My Wisdom and Experience!"; "It's My Ability to Diagnose!"; How Do We Determine Accuracy and Consistency?; Relationship Factors Affecting Client Conceptualization; Counseling Side Effects |
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Chapter 3: Models of Counseling RelationshipsA Smorgasbord of Relational Configurations; Stages of Relationship; Relationship Shapes and Sizes; Empathy as a Unifying Dimension of All Approaches to Counseling; Expressing Empathy; The Brain Thrives on Interpersonal Attachments; It's All About Hope; Part 2: Relational Strategies and Interventions; Chapter 4: Skills and Strategies for Promoting Therapeutic Relationships; How Counseling Reveals Relational Patterns; Working With Transference Reactions; Sharing of Self in the Relationship; Deepening Relationships; When Techniques Get in the Way |
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Chapter 5: Customized Relationships: Differences Within and Between Individuals, Families, Groups, and CulturesExceptions Are the Rules; Relationships With Groups and Families; Differences Within and Between Cultures; Developing Customized Relationships; Chapter 6: Relational Strategies and Interventions for Trauma; Relationship Empowered Treatments for Trauma; Healing Through Presence and Touch; What's Different About Relationships With Traumatized Clients?; The Relationship Is a Start, but Is Not Nearly Enough; Growth and Learning After Trauma: For the Client and the Counselor |
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Chapter 7: Exchanging Stories to Solidify and Fortify Counseling RelationshipsThe Power of Stories; Powers of Influence and Persuasion; Functions of Storytelling in Counseling; Stories as Coded Packages; Recommending Stories Outside of Sessions; Relationships With Stories; The Desperate Need for Relational Storytelling; Chapter 8: Innovative, Creative, and Practical Strategies for Enhancing Relational Effects; Enhancing the Counseling Relationship; Give It Time; Spend the First Moments Wisely; Your Perspective Matters, but Not As Much As You Think; Empower-and Challenge-Clients |
| Summary |
In this engaging book, Jeffrey Kottler and Richard Balkin address common misconceptions about what works in counseling and offer suggestions for building constructive counseling relationships and facilitating positive counseling outcomes. Key aspects of the client-counselor relationship are supported by interesting examples and stories integrated with clinically useful research on counseling results. Part 1 reviews basic assumptions about the nature of helping relationships and examines how and why they can empower client change efforts. Part 2 describes practical approaches to encourage client trust and growth, including chapters on the cultural and environmental context of relationships; the ways in which counseling is used to treat trauma; how exchanging stories solidifies and fortifies counseling relationships; and using creative and innovativetechniques to enhance relationships. Part 3 discusses the influence of relationships on counselors' personal lives and explores how counselors are affected by their work, process disappointments and failures, and deal with personal conflicts |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Counseling psychologist and client.
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Counseling psychologists.
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Counseling psychology -- Practice
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EDUCATION -- Professional Development.
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Counseling psychologist and client
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Counseling psychologists
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1119375436 |
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9781119375432 |
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