Anyone in a helping profession--including professional counselors, spiritual directors, pastoral counselors, chaplains and others--needs to develop Effective communication skills.
Professors teaching within CACREP-accredited professional counseling programs will be able to connect specific material in the textbook to the latest CACREP Standards..
Strategically interwoven throughout the chapters are special topics related to: multicultural counseling biblical/theological applications current and seminal research related to microSkills diagnostic and theoretical implications clinical tips for using Skills in real world counseling settings the relevance of specific microSkills to interpersonal relationships and broader ministry settings This textbook and the accompanying IVP Instructor Resources include all of the activities and assignments that an instructor might need to execute a graduate, undergraduate or lay course in foundational counseling skills.
Chapters include textbook features such as sample session dialogues, role plays and a variety of both in-class and out-of-class exercises and reflection activities that will engage various learning styles.
These Skills include perceiving, attending, validating emotion and empathic connection.
Suitable for both beginning students and seasoned practitioners, Skills for Effective Counseling provides a biblically integrated approach to foundational counseling Skills that trains the reader to use specific microskills.
But learning these Skills is like learning a new language: it takes time and practice to communicate effectively, and lack of practice can lead to the loss of one\'s ability to use this new language.
Anyone in a helping profession--including professional counselors, spiritual directors, pastoral counselors, chaplains and others--needs to develop Effective communication skills
