Helping Skills for Counselors
Fundamental Counseling Skills and Principles (First Edition)
This text provides students of helping professions with the foundational skills needed to conduct assessments, build therapeutic relationships, and carry out interventions across a multitude of therapeutic modalities. The first section of the text presents a fundamental introduction to the practice of professional helping. The second delves into particular counseling skill sets, including therapeutic listening, basic responding skills, leading groups, and helping those in crisis.
Anne Geroski, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the counseling program at The University of Vermont. She earned her doctorate degree in counselor education from University of Maine-Orono and has served as an administrator, elementary school counselor, mental health clinician, and consultant in various settings across the U.S. and abroad.
