Basic and Avanced Counseling Skills: Skilled Counselor Training Model

BASIC AND ADVANCED COUNSELING SKILLS, International Edition provides a unique emphasis on skill assessment, helping students evaluate and improve their counseling techniques. The authors use a framework of self-assessment tools and guided observations by experienced counselors-the Skilled Counselor Training Model-to encourage students to develop an accurate appraisal of their own skill levels. The text also offers training on how to transfer counseling skills to actual counseling sessions.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction to the Skilled Counselor Training Model (SCTM). 2. Pretraining Assessments of Counseling Related Traits And Skills. 3. The SCTM Exploring Stage Part I: The Attending Process. 4. The SCTM Exploring Stage Part II: Questioning and Reflecting Process. 5. The Understanding Stage Part I: The Interchangeable Empathy Process and Related Skills. 6. The Understanding Stage Part II: The Additive Empathy Process and Related Skills. 7. The Acting State Part I: Decision-Making Process and Related Skills. 8. The Acting Stage Part II: Contracting Process and Related Skills. 9. Putting It All Together. 10. Post-Assessment of Counseling Skills, Self, and Expert Ratings, and Implications For Use With Clients. 11. Using The Skilled Counselor Training Model (SCTM) in Multicultural Counseling. 12. Using The Skills in Counseling Based on Three Different Theoretical Approaches. 13. Assessment of Counseling Outcomes. Appendix A: Counseling Self Estimate Inventory Pretest/Post-Test. Appendix B: Self Monitoring Scale Pretest/Post-Test. Appendix C: Skilled Counseling Scale Pretest/Post-Test. Appendix D: Skilled Counseling Scale: Sample Student and Expert Profiles. Appendix E: Examples of Interpersonal Communication Styles. Appendix F: Commonly Used Affect Words. Appendix G: Understanding Stage "You Feel" Statements. Appendix H: Understanding Stage "I Feel" Statements. Appendix I: Skilled Counseling Scale: Sample Student and Expert Ratings. Appendix J: Counselor Rating Form. Appendix K: Goal Attainment Scale.

About the Author :
Cleborne D. Maddux, Ph.D. is Foundation Professor of Counseling and Educational Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Before going to graduate school, he worked for nine years in the public schools of Oregon and Arizona. He earned a master's degree from Arizona State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. He has been a faculty member and department chair at universities in Texas, Arizona and Nevada. Professor Maddux teaches courses in beginning and advanced statistics. He is the author of books and articles dealing with counseling, special education, and information technology in education. Professor Marlowe Smaby has been at the University of Nevada, Reno in the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology since 1992. Previously, he was a Professor of Psychology and Human Service Professions at the University of Minnesota, Duluth for 21 years. He is also a licensed Psychologist and National Board Certified Counselor. Prior to his career in counselor education he was a school teacher and the first elementary school counselor in Wisconsin. Professor Smaby has published many articles in counseling journals and has made many presentations at counselor conventions and was editor of Counselor Education and Supervision for six years. His research interests include counseling skills training, school counseling, and counselor education and supervision and using technology in counseling. He teaches counseling skills, introduction to counseling, clinic supervision and school counseling internships.

Review :
1. Introduction to the Skilled Counselor Training Model (SCTM). 2. Pretraining Assessments of Counseling Related Traits And Skills. 3. The SCTM Exploring Stage Part I: The Attending Process. 4. The SCTM Exploring Stage Part II: Questioning and Reflecting Process. 5. The Understanding Stage Part I: The Interchangeable Empathy Process and Related Skills. 6. The Understanding Stage Part II: The Additive Empathy Process and Related Skills. 7. The Acting State Part I: Decision-Making Process and Related Skills. 8. The Acting Stage Part II: Contracting Process and Related Skills. 9. Putting It All Together. 10. Post-Assessment of Counseling Skills, Self, and Expert Ratings, and Implications For Use With Clients. 11. Using The Skilled Counselor Training Model (SCTM) in Multicultural Counseling. 12. Using The Skills in Counseling Based on Three Different Theoretical Approaches. 13. Assessment of Counseling Outcomes. Appendix A: Counseling Self Estimate Inventory Pretest/Post-Test. Appendix B: Self Monitoring Scale Pretest/Post-Test. Appendix C: Skilled Counseling Scale Pretest/Post-Test. Appendix D: Skilled Counseling Scale: Sample Student and Expert Profiles. Appendix E: Examples of Interpersonal Communication Styles. Appendix F: Commonly Used Affect Words. Appendix G: Understanding Stage "You Feel" Statements. Appendix H: Understanding Stage "I Feel" Statements. Appendix I: Skilled Counseling Scale: Sample Student and Expert Ratings. Appendix J: Counselor Rating Form. Appendix K: Goal Attainment Scale.