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Sage 800.818.7243 or 805.499.9774 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. pt fax: 805.375.5291 22 TexTbooks NEw! the eSSentIAl counSelor: Process, Skills, and Techniques third edition David Hutchinson, Johnson State College With a warm and passionate writing style, David Hutchinson demonstrates the process of becoming a counselor and developing key skills from start to finish. The author gains credibility through his real-world examples and reflection activities and helps students feel less intimated. The book covers all the key counseling skills learned in a skills/ methods course including skills for engaging a client, tools for engagement, lab practice activities, listening skills, developing empathy, and more advanced skills such as assessment, goal setting and action planning. The book comes with over 20 hours of video demonstrations of key skills in the core chapters. CONTENTS 1: An Invitation to Counseling Work / 2: Getting Started: Skills and Tasks for Engaging a New Client / 3: Skills for Developing the Relationship / 4: Skills for Deepening the Relationship / 5: Assessment, Goal Setting, and Action Planning / 6: Essential Action Skills: Working Toward Goals / 7: Advanced Action Skills: Moving Beyond Stability / 8: Skills for Ending / 9: Skills for Managing Crisis Situations / 10: Exceptional Counseling Challenges / 11: Developing Ethical and Cultural Competency / 12: The Whole Counselor: Maintaining Health and Perspective PAPerbAck ISbn: 978-1-4833-3386-1 • june 2014 • 376 PAgeS • BuNDlE ThiS TiTlE wiTh ThE prACTiCE SKillS ViDEO pACK: uSE iSBN 978-1-4833-4379-2 the PrActIce of collAborAtIve counSelIng And PSychotherAPy: Developing Skills in Culturally Mindful Helping David Paré, University of Ottawa, Canada This text offers a comprehensive introduction to counseling and psychotherapy skills designed to teach future practitioners how to develop and foster collaborative relationships with their clients. Keeping power relations and cultural diversity at the forefront of its ideas and lessons, Paré examines, step by step, the skills involved when engaging in collaborative therapeutic conversation—an approach that encourages a contextual view of clients and counteracts longstanding traditions of focusing on individual pathology only. Guided by the notion of local knowledge, Paré acknowledges the resourcefulness of clients, showing how to capitalize on existing skills and abilities to construct useful change. Accompanying Video Slim pack available—see next title entry. CONTENTS SECTION ONE: PREPARING FOR PRACTICE / One: Culture, Counseling, And Care / Two: Therapeutic Conversation / SECTION TWO: CONSTRUCTING A FOUNDATION FOR COLLABORATION / Three: Receiving And Listening / Four: Building Relationship / SECTION THREE: MAPPING CLIENTS' ExPERIENCE / Five: Receiving And Reading Meaning / Six: Responding And Confirming Meaning / SECTION FOUR: ASSESSING CHALLENGES, PREFERENCES, AND OPPORTUNITIES / Seven: Defining And Describing Problems And Preferences / Eight: Assessment I: Evaluating Challenges And Competencies / Nine: Assessment Ii: Attending To The Wider Context / SECTION FIVE: PROMOTING CHANGE / Ten: Collaborative Influence: Achievable Goals Towards Preferred Outcomes / Eleven: Working With Actions / Twelve: Working With Thoughts And Beliefs / Thirteen: Working With Emotions And Values / Fourteen: Working With Stories / Fifteen: Endings And Beginnings PAPerbAck ISbn: 978-1-4129-9509-2 • ©2013 • 504 PAgeS • • collaBorative helPing SkillS: Visual Demonstrations of Culturally Minded Helping David Paré, University of Ottawa, Canada Help your students develop culturally mindful helping skills! Now your students can watch and learn how to integrate key cultural helping skills into everyday practice by watching expert David Paré. Demonstrations include role plays of the following skills: listening; attending; compassion; empathy; transparency; summarizing; rewording; cultural fit; termination; and more! In addition, the author provides commentaries on each skill to help students understand, interpret and reflect on each skill presented. SlIm PAck: $90.00 • ISbn: 978-1-4522-4249-1 • ©2014 • integrating 12-StePS and PSychotheraPy: Helping Clients Find Sobriety and Recovery Kevin A. Osten, Chicago Lakeshore Hospital • Robert Switzer, Chicago School of Professional Psychology This text presents a practical and applied approach to working with substance dependent clients. Designed to be accessible to a wide and multidisciplinary audience of helpers at all skill levels, it helps future practitioners fully understand the clinical challenges with substance dependence, adjust their thinking and technique in order to match their client's phase of recovery, and optimize client retention and treatment outcomes. Utilizing educator, training, and practice perspectives, the authors explore relevant theory and techniques in integrating 12-Steps across a broad range of clinical issues. CONTENTS 1. An Integrated View: How 12-Steps and Psychology Agree and Disagree on the Understanding of Substance Use, Abuse, and Dependence / 2. Examining the Components of a 12-Step Program; Their Benefits and Criticisms / 3. A Clinical Perspective on Why 12-Steps is a Useful Tool for Reversing the Damage Wrought by Substance Dependence / 4. A Primer on Therapeutic Practice with Substance Use Clients / 5. Assessment Considerations and Techniques / 6. Therapy Considerations and Techniques / 7. Hitting Bottom / 8. Substance Dependence – A Relapsing Disease / 9. Step One, The Journey Begins / 10. Step Two, the Journey Continues / 11. Step Three, the Journey Becomes Purposeful / 12. Afterword for Experienced Clinicians Beginning Work with Substance Use Clients PAPerbAck ISbn: 978-1-4129-9898-7 • ©2014 • 240 PAgeS •