Becoming a Helper - Softcover

Corey, Marianne Schneider; Corey, Gerald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534347940 ISBN 13: 9780534347949

Publisher: Brooks Cole, 1997

Synopsis

This best-seller is a "must read" for anyone embarking on or considering a career in human services, counseling psychology, social work, or any of the other helping professions. Drawing on their years of experience as writers, teachers, and practitioners, the Coreys focus on the struggles, anxieties, and uncertainties involved in becoming an effective helper, and challenge the reader to take a candid look at the demands and strains they'll face in the helping professions and their motives for choosing a helping career.

About this title

About the Author:

Marianne Schneider Corey is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California and is a National Certified Counselor. She received her master's degree in marriage, family, and child counseling from Chapman College. She is a Fellow of the Association for Specialists in Group Work and was the recipient of this organization's Eminent Career Award in 2001. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Mental Health Counselors Association in 2011. She also holds memberships in the American Counseling Association, the Association for Specialists in Group Work, the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development, and the American Mental Health Counselors Association. She is the co-author of several counseling textbooks, and has made educational DVD programs on various aspects of counseling practice. Marianne has been involved in leading groups for different populations, providing training and supervision workshops in group process, facilitating self-exploration groups for graduate students in counseling, and co-facilitating training groups for group counselors and weeklong residential workshops in personal growth. With her husband, Jerry Corey, she has given many presentations at professional conferences and has conducted training workshops, continuing education seminars, and personal growth groups in the United States, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, Mexico, Hong Kong, China, and Korea.

Review:

"This book represents all the basics a student new to the Human Services field needs. It serves as a foundation for learning to be a Human Service worker or anyone in the helping fields. It's a handbook for helping at any educational level of training and is written with the student in mind. It is readable and involves the students by using real-life examples and illustrations of the primary ideas and concepts."

"This book contains an excellent breadth of introduction to many theoretical topics in the helping professions from ethics to families to multiculturalism. . . . It is an excellent book that raises key questions for the trainee. The authors clearly have an interest in providing the best possible training for future helping professionals and the best qualified trainees for our students' future clients in mind as they continue to refine this already excellent text."

About this edition

• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0534347940
• ISBN 13: 9780534347949
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 376