Download Learning The Art Of Helping: Building Blocks And Techniques Written By Mark E. Young Released As Hardcover
was one of my favorite books from my graduate program curriculum, The basis of a helping relationship is explored in depth and reflecting skills, confrontation techniques, the relationship cycle are a few things that I recall as being very helpful to me in my professional development.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who works in an advising or counseling position, The books has a strong emphasis on creating and maintaining a beneficial helping relationship, More than decent coverage given to issues one may come up against as a heping professional, Many worthwhile exercises and reflection points which at times can seem laborious and tasklike, bear if done with honesty and effort personal insights useful for a practitioner to know about themselves.
The DVD therapy examples aren't always that skilled, in my opinion, and the book does not always highlight such things, so it can help to have some guidance around this if you are not yet savvy in this area.
Good to have people to discuss things with in general,
Young's writing style is easy to take in, and his humor and openness is a welcomed addition to his teaching.
A book you can pick up and put down as needed, Chapters are well organized, and the book is easy to navigate around if you need to review skills and knowledge.
What a badly written textbook! Doesn't anyone edit these Do they not go through peer review before publication This was a class read.
I am definitely purchasing this book once I graduate, Well Written and informative As an academic counseling book goes, this one ranks toward the top, Easy to read, good explanations, thoughtprovoking exercises at the end of each
chapter, This book is an incredibly valuable resource for those pursuing counseling in any form, As a Lay Counseling Certificate student, I found this book to be very helpful in both the readings and also to the practical application exercises we conducted in class trios with counselor/mock client/observer.
The book was long, but worth the read for the class I needed it for! This offered many helpful strategies for counseling.
Would read it again. Three and a half. Definitely could use an update In terms of PC culture, GI/SO language and an overhaul in the level of condescension and patronization present.
I mean, if were being trained in a profession where the crux of it is to validate someones lived experience, wouldnt you do everything in your power to ensure that was the case Anything less or else is just false advertising plain and simple.
The writing was good and clear, But yea, especially since I took a skill based class where this was the textbook, I dont think it was free of faux paux or offense to the reader, let alone the freaking client.
But oh well, gotta have a text for this at the end of the day, And at the end of the day, its just that: a text, Not a bible or instructional manual, Far from it. Just think of it like eager recommendations with some skill formulas embedded, In fact, our course facilitators often contradicted those exact recs and wordings! Tldr take with a grain of salt, Helpful for basic skills in listening and performing empathetic gestures however it still subscribes to the outmoded idea of “cultural competency” and the gender subsection of chapteris the most outoftouch description of a binary gender experience Ive ever seen.
The interchanging of man/male and woman/female is confused and aimless, and the description of socialization reinforces Western gender stereotypes, a bias the text itself warns about.
This sectionabout encountering gender differencesalso does not mention the existence of transgender people, Not one passing sentence. The gender chapter is new for theth edition, The APAs guideline for psychologists working with transgender and gender nonconforming people inpredates theth edition of this book byyears.
Why include a section on gender if the intention was not to describe how to approach working with different gender experiences Why leave out all mention of transgender people This was required for school.
Great book on counseling! I read theth edition of this book and it is helpful and breaks down the basics of therapeutic techniques.
I also had the privilege of Dr Young coming to my class and learning techniques directly from himseeing him book down the problem was enlightening and so helpful.
An excellent source for learning how to be a better helper, both professional and lay helper, It walks you through basic skills and a few advanced ones, I also highly recommend having a mentor/teacher help you walk through it, Helpful book for Counseling Skills course EDCNBasic helping skills book, Excellent textbook. A practical guide to building therapeutic relationships that is easy to read and apply! I read an online version which initially frustrated me but I adjusted and really loved it though I wish a updated print copy was easier to find.
will do anything to meet goodreads goal of the year pt,This is a great book about counselling if you are a beginner, The fundamental building blocks of counselling are presented in this book,
Understanding and applying the principles from this book will allow you to build a better relationship with your client as well as give you ideas what to do next to help your client.
This was a very helpful book for understanding and practicing techniques with questions and evaluation charts to help critically think through how one is to be a better helper.
I used this as a textbook in a class on Fundamentals of Counseling, Subtitled “Building Blocks and Techniques,” this is a rather comprehensive overview of the entire counseling process, Starting by describing the “personal journey” that is counseling, the author steps the reader through the therapeutic relationship, He describes the challenges and rewards of helping, providing some insights on the personal characteristics that should be present in the successful counselor.
Young provides a road map to the steps involved in counseling, focusing on the basic skills necessary as well as recounting the building blocks of forging a positive therapeutic relationship.
Each chapter ends with a summary as well as group discussions and exercises to develop the competencies of the effective helper.
Chapters continue by describing the importance of the therapeutic relationship as well as addressing, in some detail, invitational skills, reflecting skills paraphrasing, reflecting feelings, and reflecting meaning, summarizing, challenging, assessment, and goal setting.
Two chapters focus on change techniques, addressing issues like enhancing efficacy, lowering and raising emotional arousal, activating hope, and providing new learning experiences.
In addition, Young provides excellent examples and advice on evaluation, reflection, and termination, The final chapter of this excellent book deals with the helping relationship with those who are “different” in terms of culture, gender issue, and age.
An exceptional resource, for both those considering the helping professions as well as a refresher for those in the field.
CNSLThis book introduces readers to basic helping skills and advanced helping techniques within an eclectic framework, providing interactive, stepbystep instructions and practice exercises.
A straightforward writing style discusses the most commonly used techniques, and prepares future practitioners to integrate assessment data, plan treatment, and implement strategies for a wide range of clients.
Chapter topics include the therapeutic relationship invitational skills reflecting and advanced reflecting skills understanding the client challenging, goalsetting, and solution skills enhancing efficacy and selfesteem practicing new behaviors new learning experiences and evaluating the effectiveness of helping.
For counselors, social workers, psychologists, and anyone interested in learning the basic techniques of helping, .