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The Helping Relationship Sourcebook (2nd Edition)
The Helping Relationship Sourcebook - 2nd Edition Author:Donald L. Avila, Arthur W. Combs, William M. Purkey The search for personal fulfillment and satisfying relationships with others has been an endless quest for human beings. Its achievement in our time has become at once more necessary, possible, and precarious than ever. On the one hand, science has provided us with the means to fill our physical needs in a fashion never dreamed of previously and... more », in doing so, has released us to turn our energies to higher considerations. On the other hand, we find ourselves in jeopardy as the great human and social problems we have created threaten to overwhelm us. Troubled people everywhere are searching deeply within themselves for personal meaning and exploring relationships with others for solutions as never before. To aid in this search, the established professions of medicine, law, education, and religion are being asked to expand their traditional services and responsibilities. In their quest for purpose, peace, and fulfillment, humans have created new helping professions expressly designed to assist persons, singly or in groups, to find more effective and satisfying ways of living with themselves and others.
"… What constitutes a professional helper is in the mind of the helper and not the title of the profession with which he or she may be identified."
This book, although it can be used by itself, has been designed as a companion to Helping Relationships: Basic Concepts for the Helping Professions, by the same authors. It provides original source material from the developers of humanistic psychology that pertains to building and maintaining useful and productive relationships between helper and helpee.