The second edition of Skills and Techniques for Human Service Professionals: Counseling Environment, Helping Skills, Treatment Issues provides readers with valuable information about how the Counseling Environment impacts the Helping relationship, ways of delivering critical Helping skills, and the necessity of understanding important Treatment Issues when working with clients and consumers.
Neukrug is the author of eleven books: The Dictionary of Counseling and Human Services
Skills and Techniques for Human Service Professionals
Counseling Theory and Practice (2nd ed.)
The World of the Counselor (5th ed.)
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He was granted ACA Fellow status by the American Counseling Association in 2019.
Neukrug is a nationally known author, presenter, and researcher.
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A licensed professional counselor and licensed psychologist, he has experience in outpatient therapy, crisis counseling, substance abuse counseling, couples and family counseling, private practice, and as a school counselor.
Edward Neukrug is a professor of Counseling and Human services at Old Dominion University.
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Section III focuses on important Treatment Issues in Human services including case management, culturally competent counseling, guidelines for working with diverse populations, and ethical decision-making when working with all clients.
Readers also learn about affirmation giving, encouragement, and support; offering alternatives; information and advice giving; modeling; self-disclosure; collaboration; advocacy; information gathering and solution-focused questions; advanced empathy; confrontation; assessing for suicidality and homicidality; crisis, disaster, and trauma helping; token economies; positive helping; and coaching.
Coverage includes honoring and respecting the client, being curious, delimiting power and developing an equal relationship, non-pathologizing, listening, reflections, paraphrasing, and basic empathy.
In Section II, chapters move from the most basic foundational Skills to more advanced Skills and specialized training.
This chapter focuses on such things as agency atmosphere, physical space, and nonverbal behaviors of the helper.
Whereas Chapter 1 highlights eight important characteristics of the effective helper, Chapter 2 examines how the client experiences the agency when first entering it.
Section I focuses on the Counseling environment.
The second edition of Skills and Techniques for Human Service Professionals: Counseling Environment, Helping Skills, Treatment Issues provides readers with valuable information about how the Counseling Environment impacts the Helping relationship, ways of delivering critical Helping skills, and the necessity of understanding important Treatment Issues when working with clients and consumers
