Essentials of Skilled Helping: Managing Problems, Developing Opportunities (with Skilled Helping Around the World: Addressing Diversity and Multiculturalism Booklet)

Short, inexpensive, and thorough! Sounds like the perfect textbook. ESSENTIALS OF SKILLED HELPING: MANAGING PROBLEMS, DEVELOPING OPPORTUNITIES shows you how to both address conflicts and create opportunities at the same time. And because it's packed with case studies and written in a simple style, this helping textbook is easy to use as well as informative. Plus, it's loaded with study tools to help you make sure that you've absorbed all the valuable material that you'll need for your career as a helper.

Egan (emeritus, psychology, Loyola U.) describes a three-stage problem-management and opportunity-development helping model. He also outlines the methods and communication skills that make the model work as part of the counseling process. Suitable for practitioners in the helping professions as well as interested lay readers, the material in this volume is taken from a longer text, titled The Skilled Helper. Accompanying the volume is a booklet devoted to issues of multiculturalism and diversity in skilled helping. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Gerard Egan, Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Organizational Studies at Loyola University of Chicago. He has written over a dozen books and currently writes in the areas of communication, counseling, business and organization effectiveness, management development, leadership, the management of innovation and change, and organization politics and culture. He also conducts workshops in these areas both in the United States and abroad and is a consultant at a variety of companies and institutions worldwide.