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The book offers an introduction to the field of work, along with various conversation and questioning techniques, as well as over 60 specific methods and exercises for different counselling session topics. It focuses on supporting clients who are directly involved as individuals seeking to distance themselves or exit, or indirectly as people from their social environment (e.g., parents, other family members, friends, and professionals) who are affected by religiously motivated extremism. This textbook is practice-oriented and has been developed from practical experience. It aims to empower counsellors to handle a range of challenges and objectives. Additionally, the textbook serves as a source of inspiration, providing content that can be adapted, discussed, and further developed for one's own work.

The majority of the methods are based on systemic counselling approaches, which are supplemented by other techniques from other schools of counselling and therapy. The approaches and methods presented also have great potential to be transferred to other related phenomena and fields of work, for example for counselling in the field of right-wing extremism, in the context of conspiracy narratives and other anti-democratic worldviews and phenomena of group-focused enmity.