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 | | Communication Skills in Helping Relationships: A Framework for Facilitating Personal Growth (Counseling) by Vonda Olson Long ISBN-10: 9780534338695 ISBN-10: 0-534-33869-0 ISBN-13: 9780534338695 ISBN-13: 978-0-534-33869-5 Paperback 1995-07-11 Brooks Cole Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Vonda Long's fresh approach to the counseling process focuses on the important and essential communication skills necessary for all potential counselors. Her emphasis on personal growth makes the book engaging and helps students understand themselves as they practice and learn how to become thoughtful and empathic helpers. The book is organized into an operational, structural framework for the helping process that incorporates outcome and process goals, philosophy of growth, communication, and facilitative skills. The author does not purport hers be the only possible framework, only a suggested framework that has been used successfully. The framework is based on the 3 R's: Rights, Respect, and Responsibility. | ||
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Communicating for Beginners Vonda Olson-Long provides a fundamental, systematic approach to communicating in the helping relationship. This small but organized book, I believe, is valuable in introductory communications or counseling-oriented courses or for continuing education or inservice training in helping situations such as peer counseling, hospice care, nursing,ministries,outreach and undergraduate post-secondary education. Olson-Long presents a very systematic model, organizing the process along three basic human dimensions: cognitive, affective and behavioral. Particularly useful is her approach to emotions (affective dimension)and specific communication skills such as non-judgmentalism, empathy, and congruency. The communication process is useful in facilitating growth, adjustment or change. The accompanying workbook is most valuable offering realistic case studies and practice exercises to assist in skill development. Appropriate for first-timers or those interested in building communication skills from the ground up. | ||