Becoming a Helper 6e

Ideal for anyone embarking on or considering a career in the helping professions, BECOMING A HELPER, International Edition provides an overview of the stages of the helping process while teaching students the skills and knowledge they need to become successful helping professionals. Drawing on their years of experience, Corey and Corey focus on the struggles, anxieties, and uncertainties students often encounter on the road to becoming effective helpers. In addition, the text emphasizes self-reflection on a number of professional issues and challenges readers to examine their motives for choosing a helping career. Finally, the authors help students decide if a career in the helping professions is right for them by asking them to take a candid look at the demands and strains theys experiences enliven the text and get readers personally involved, while the chapter reviews, focus questions, inventories and exercises help students to reflect on and apply the content of the chapter.The ETHICS IN ACTION CD-ROM (available for packaging with the text) contains 60 minutes of video vignettes in which students can role-play ethical situations and responses, listen to commentary from the the authors, and participate in exercises that will help them explore topics and gain knowledge.