Third edition of a textbook and training manual for trainers and students in the counselling and helping services area. This edition has been considerably revised and updated and includes seven new chapters. Presents a practical and systematic model to help clients develop and maintain life skills, based on DASIE, the author's five-stage model for helping clients to assume responsibility for how they feel, think and act. Includes a bibliography, and name and subject indexes. The author has also produced a TTraining Manual for Lifeskills Helping'.