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Chang (Indiana U.) et al. detail the skills, knowledge, and processes needed for students who will be working in the helping professions with individuals, organizations, families, and groups. They focus on key practice behaviors and competencies, including information and tasks that must be mastered before seeing clients, such as self-understanding and perceptions of self and others; developing working relationships, including basic interpersonal skills, opening and closing a meeting, and expressing understanding; exploring and assessing clients; identifying challenges and establishing goals; and taking action, evaluating progress, and ending the work. This edition has new, revised, and updated information in each chapter; a focus on competencies from the educational standards; a new glossary; chapters on values, ethics, and legal obligations and professionalism and professional relationships; new sections on the influence of socio-economic status, life stages, disability, and the family systems perspective; new cases; and discussion of assessing readiness to change using social cognitive theory and ways to monitor the client-practitioner relationship and progress on goals. A DVD demonstrating the use of skills is available separately. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
