The sixth edition of this seminal textbook offers an updated model for aspiring helping professionals to enhance their clinical skills. Significant updates to this edition include:  * new interactive features to improve student learning, including self-reflection exercises to help them cultivate their own values and perspectives as helpers and role-play activities for hands-on learning * updated case examples and reflection questions that reflect a broad range of diversity among clients and providers * a shift from a stage-based model to a more fluid, goal-based model of helping skills and * empirical updates that help students understand the importance of tailoring interventions to clients amp rsquo individual needs. Clara Hill amp rsquo s helping skills model consists of three main goals-exploration, insight, and action-in which helpers guide clients in exploring their thoughts and feelings, discovering the origins and consequences of maladaptive thoughts and behaviors, and creating