V monografii raskryvayutsya teoreticheskie osnovy original'noy fokusno-strategicheskoy modeli vzaimoponimaniya. Pomogayushchee vzaimodeystvie rassmatrivaetsya kak protsess postroeniya i razvitiya vzaimoponimaniya mezhdu lyud'mi, vklyuchayushchiy v kachestve komponentov protsessy osmysleniya i pereosmysleniya sebya, drugikh lyudey i situatsii konkretnogo vzaimodeystviya i zhizni v tselom. Analiziruyutsya osobennosti vzaimoponimaniya v konsul'tirovanii, sopostavlyayutsya razlichnye ego modeli, svyazannye s nimi predstavleniya o ponimanii, ego usloviyakh i rezul'tatakh. Rassmatrivayutsya strategii, skhemy i komponenty vzaimoponimaniya, ikh vzaimodeystvie i vzaimnoe preobrazovanie na raznykh etapakh i stadiyakh psikhologicheskogo konsul'tirovaniya. Monografiya budet interesna issledovatelyam edologii i psikhologii, zanimayushchimsya problemami sotsial'nogo poznaniya i obshcheniya, psikhologicheskoy i sotsial'noy pomoshchi, a takzhe prepodavatelyam i studentam fakul'tetov psikhologii, sotsial'noy raboty i sotsial'noy pedagogiki, spetsialistam, rabotayushchim v sfere sotsial'nogo obsluzhivaniya, vsem, interesuyushchimsya problemami organizatsii i effektivnosti sotsial'noy i psikhologicheskoy pomoshchi.