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By Lawrence Shulman
Publisher: Cengage Learning (2015) · Language: English · ISBN-13: 978-1305259003
The Skills of Helping (8th Edition), part of the Empowerment Series, provides a practical, strengths-based framework for developing core social work and human services skills. Covering work with individuals, families, groups, and communities, this widely used text bridges theoretical concepts with hands-on techniques essential for effective, ethical, and client-centered practice.
Key features include:
A relationship-centered approach that emphasizes the importance of the helping relationship across all practice settings.
Step-by-step guidance on core competencies such as engagement, assessment, intervention, group facilitation, and termination.
Focus on ethics, cultural competence, and diversity, integrated throughout case examples and exercises.
In-depth exploration of self-awareness, use of self, and professional boundaries.
Enhanced edition includes interactive tools and resources through MindTap to reinforce skills and prepare students for fieldwork.
This text is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students in social work, counseling, and human services programs, as well as practitioners seeking to strengthen their clinical and community practice skills.
