Jeffrey A. Kottler

Leah Brew

With its practical, experiential approach, the Second Edition of Applied Helping Skills: Transforming Lives covers the basic skills and core interventions needed to begin seeing clients. By approaching therapy as an art rather than from a prescriptive diagnostic position, this text encourages readers to look at every situation differently and draw from their embedded knowledge to best serve the individuals in their care. Authors Leah Brew and Jeffrey A. Kottler weave humor and passion into their engaging prose, effectively conveying their excitement and satisfaction for doing helping work.

Transforming Lives

Applied Helping Skills

One Life at a Time: Helping Skills and Interventions is a student-centered, inexpensive experientially based textbook for beginning courses in counseling and therapy. Written in Kottler's personal, easy-to-read and engaging style, this text covers all the basic skills and core interventions that beginners need to be taught in order to begin seeing clients. Students are encouraged to explore self-reflection and make connections between the material and their prior knowledge and experience; once internalized, these ideas and skills can be applied to one's life as well as one's work. Including an online instructor's manual, case examples and first person accounts - this book will help students to understand how best to meet a client's needs.

Helping Skills and Interventions

One Life at a Time

Michael Altekruse

This integrated video-and-workbook set conceptualizes interviewing behaviors in a visual manner. It demonstrates specific skills for working through four common problematic interviewing behaviors that new students typically make: asking too many questions, giving advice, being social instead of therapeutic, and reflecting at a superficial level. Additionally, it presents comparative 'best practices' at work in realistic situations.

Leah Brew

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