The quintessential book for beginning helpers
Gerard Egan's The Skilled Helper is internationally recognized for its successful problem-management approach to effective helping. Egan's practical, three-stage model will help you
learn to use a wide variety of counseling skills appropriately and effectively;

develop a solid foundation as a basis for building your own personal
counseling orientation: master practical strategies for facilitating client change,

be able to confront and deal with the "shadow side of helping." And, throughout the book, vivid examples show helping skills in action in a vast array of possible relationships and settings-from correctional institutes and hospitals to private practice.

"Egan's The Skilled Helper is a coherent, systematic presentation of the science and art of the practice of effective communication in psychotherapy. Dr. Egan provides all the information, attitude orientation, and values that the beginning

therapist needs." John K. Bowers
Northwest Missouri State University

"The Skilled Helper offers an organized approach to helping individuals to focus on important ways to reach valued outcomes in their lives. The emphasis on helping the clients move from their present scenarios to their preferred scenarios with goal setting, problem-solving strategy, and planned actions does produce valued outcomes.

Dorothy Neufeld

Loma Linda University

"The Skilled Helper helps the student think and work with people like a counseling professional more than any other text I've seen. Students enjoy and seem able to learn on their own from reading it, which lets the professor concentrate on application and refinement of counseling skills. Students also gain insight into the reality of counseling through Egan's many examples and personal observations. This text gives an excellent integration of client-centered attitudes with practical strategies for change."

Tracey Manning
College of Notre Dame of Maryland