Refreshing, highly practical, and student-centred, this dynamic text covers all the basic skills and core interventions helpers-in-training need to know in order to begin seeing clients. Kottler and Brew use a broad model of helping to acquaint students with a myriad of clinical styles in a variety of settings. Case examples, first-person accounts, homework assignments, and a series of reflective exercises illustrate how to apply these skills to the helper's own life and in working with others ... One Life at a Time.

Important features of this text include:

• * Approaches to assessment and diagnosis of client problems
• * Attention to needs of individuals within diverse social, ethnic, and cultural contexts
• * Vital background information of the major conceptual frameworks
• * Useful self-monitoring techniques
• * Numerous aspects of building and maintaining relationships
• * Practical ways to maintain progress and evaluate results