Helping the Client

Helping the Client is the bestselling text which has long been used as the basis of interpersonal skills training in a wide range of professions from medicine to management. Based on John Heron's well-known six-category model, the book presents different forms of helping behaviour which can be adopted by any practitioner working face-to-face with a client.

Introduction
Preparation for Helping
Client Categories and States
Prescriptive Interventions
Informative Interventions
Confronting Interventions
Cathartic Interventions
Catharsis and Transmutation
Catalytic Interventions
Supportive Interventions
Basic Interventions
Phases and Sequencing
Degenerate and Perverted Interventions
Six-Category Training
Teaching Interpersonal Skills
Co-Counselling