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The Art of Helping
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The Art of Helping

by Robert R. Carkhuff
January 2009
Beginner
301 pages
4h 21m
English
HRD Press

Overview

This is the ninth edition of The Art of Helping. More than 500,000 copies have been sold over three decades. Literally, millions of people have been trained in helping skills. Many more have been recipients of these skills. The effects upon hundreds of thousand of these recipients have been researched. The results are in: skills acquisition and use are spectacularly powerful. This book explains the essential interpersonal skills needed by professional and lay counselors, teachers, business managers, parents, everyone. All in an easy to understand manner.

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