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Helping Skills in Therapy
In Helping Skills in Therapy, two therapists—or helpers—Judith A. Gerstenblith, PhD, and Harold Chui, PhD, work with several clients on each goal of the helping skills model, showcasing the approach in a structured and instructive way.
Helping Skills, Sixth Edition
The sixth edition of this seminal textbook offers new research, guidelines, and activities to teach aspiring helping professionals essential skills.
Evidence-Based Psychotherapy Skills and Methods
Special issue of APA’s journal Psychotherapy, Vol. 60, No. 3, September 2023. This special issue aims to help psychotherapists implement skills/methods in ways that optimize psychotherapy outcomes and to assist trainers in teaching them.
Becoming Better Psychotherapists
This book examines the training and supervision of psychotherapists, with a focus on psychotherapy efficacy.
Therapist–Client Agreement on Helpful and Wished-For Experiences in Psychotherapy [PDF]
This study examined therapist and client agreement and its association with psychotherapy outcome using quantitative and qualitative methods.
Essentials of Consensual Qualitative Research
This concise, practical guide provides step-by-step advice and tips on how to plan and conduct a consensual qualitative research study.
Helping Skills, Fifth Edition
Clara Hill presents an updated model of essential helping skills for undergraduate and first‑year graduate students.
Meaning in Life: A Case Study
This DVD explores the idea of meaning in life and discusses how to work with it as a focus in therapy.
Meaning in Life
Author Clara Hill analyzes various theoretical approaches to meaning-in-life (MIL), and provides clear, practical guidance on how to incorporate MIL as a construct and focus in therapy.
How and Why Are Some Therapists Better Than Others?
This book identifies which characteristics make therapists more or less effective in their work and proposes guidelines to improve their effectiveness.
Dream Work in Practice
In this video, Dr. Hill demonstrates her three-stage model for working with dreams, where she works with the client to explore the dream in detail.
Transformation in Psychotherapy
A comprehensive look at corrective experiences across the main psychotherapeutic approaches.
Consensual Qualitative Research
This lively and practical text presents a fresh and comprehensive approach to conducting consensual qualitative research (CQR).
Helping Skills in Practice: A Three-Stage Model
In Helping Skills in Practice: A Three-Stage Model, Dr. Clara E. Hill demonstrates her three-stage model of helping clients. This three-stage approach involves exploration, insight, and action.
Insight in Psychotherapy
Delineates and integrates what is currently known about insight, and discusses new directions that could help clinicians and researchers better understand this rich and complex process.
Dream Work in Therapy: Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action
This APA book discusses a cognitive-experiential model for working with dreams and provides clear instructions for implementing it in practice.