{"product_id":"9780761972884","title":"Helping the Client: A Creative Practical Guide","description":"\u003cp\u003eA remarkable synthesis of the conceptual and the practical, this powerful and innovative book will be essential reading for all those interested in developing their repertoire of skills and methods for helping a client.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Heron draws on his many years of experience as a therapist, consultant and teacher to present his model of six main forms of helping behaviour which can be adopted by any practitioner offering a face-to-face service to any client within a formal contractual or more informal helping relationship. He explores the contexts and issues associated with these different forms of helping and, for each, describes a wide range of interventions which the practitioner may use. He examines the objectives of helping, states of personhood, the preparation of the practitioner and the many ways in which helping can degenerate. A discussion of the format for interpersonal skills training using the six-category model concludes the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the primary focus of \u003cb\u003eHelping the Client \u003c\/b\u003eis upon the counsellor or therapist working with the personal development of the client, the approach it presents has a much wider application. It has been accepted as the basis for interpersonal skills training in diverse settings - business organizations, medicine, nursing, social work, teaching and youth and community work - and many examples are given of how the interventions can be used by different occupational groups.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelping the Client is the fourth, revised edition of \u003cb\u003eSix Category Intervention Analysis\u003c\/b\u003e, previously published by the University of Surrey.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SAGE Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047399244016,"sku":"9780761972884","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780761972884_p0.jpg?v=1763655625","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780761972884","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}