Students investigate their motives and aptitude for becoming helpers through self-assessments and inventories designed to encourage the self-reflection process as well as the authors" discussions on the reality of what it is like to be a helper. * The text provides basic information on practice, including information on skills, stages of helping, managing boundaries, and working with the community, and groups. * Case examples and vignettes drawn from Corey and Corey"s experiences enliven the text and get readers personally involved, while the chapter reviews, focus questions, inventories and exercises help students to reflect on and apply the content of the chapter. * Extensively updated throughout, the book includes current information on topics such as rehabilitation counseling and substance abuse counseling, conflicts in helping relationships, self-awareness, the helping process, narrative therapy, fieldwork experiences, and supervision. * Important issues unique to the helping professions, such as transference, countertransference, recognizing competence, and learning to refer, are covered in more depth.