Counseling Strategies and Interventions for Professional Helpers text features and benefits include:    Students see how to apply the concepts and skills in each chapter through a number of helpful pedagogical aids, including: Application exercises and suggestions for role plays bring life to the concepts. Case examples help students visualise how skills are used with diverse clients. Reflective Questions help students develop critical thinking skills about important issues in helping. NEW! Students learn, acquire, and see how to apply basic skills with clients through the text’s expanded coverage of three critical basic skills: NEW! Attending Skills (new Chapter 4). NEW! Listening Skills (new Chapter 5). NEW! Action Skills (new Chapter 6). NEW! Students get practical help for coping with challenges in professional growth and transitions such as ethical challenges, supervision challenges, and professional development in a new Chapter 10, Considerations and Challenges for Beginning Helpers. NEW! Help for dealing with issues facing vets returning from deployment is provided in a new section on counseling in military settings (Ch. 1). NEW! Suggestions for developing more effective communication with clients from other countries— including immigrants and refugees—is presented in Chapter 3. Ideas for developing awareness of sensitive and non-homophobic communication with LGBTQ clients is presented in Chapter 3. Students get tools and strategies for assessing key components of client problems and issues in Chapter 8. A framework to use in developing outcome goals for change with clients is presented in Chapter 8’s coverage of SMART goals in counseling. Students see ways to use mindfulness interventions with clients in Chapter 9. Genograms presented in Chapter 9 give students a visual tool for assessing families and systems.