- 216 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
About this book
This practical bestseller from leading expert Richard Nelson-Jones introduces the essential counselling skills for the helping professions. Now in its fourth edition, it guides you through the key skills for helping workacross a range of settings, such as counselling, nursing, social work, youth work, education and many more. It explores 17 key counselling skills, including:
-asking questions
-monitoring
-facilitating problem solving
-negotiating homework Each chapter describes a particular skill, illustrates it using clear case examples across a range of settings and then helps you consolidate and practise what you?ve learned through a set of creative activities. Further chapters cover professional issues including a new chapter on managing crises and chapters on ethical dilemmas, supervision, working with diversity and more.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Publisher Note
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Sidebar List
- About the Author
- Preface
- I Introduction
- 1 Who are counsellors and helpers?
- 2 What are basic counselling skills?
- 3 Helpers and helpees as diverse persons
- 4 What you bring to counselling and helping
- 5 The helping relationship
- 6 The helping process
- II Specific Counselling Skills
- 7 Understanding the internal frame of reference
- 8 Showing attention and interest
- 9 Paraphrasing and reflecting feelings
- 10 Starting, structuring and summarizing
- 11 Asking questions
- 12 Monitoring
- 13 Offering challenges and feedback
- 14 Self-disclosing
- 15 Managing resistances and making referrals
- 16 Facilitating problem solving
- 17 Coaching, demonstrating and rehearsing
- 18 Improving helpeesā self-talk
- 19 Improving helpeesā rules
- 20 Improving helpeesā perceptions
- 21 Negotiating homework
- 22 Conducting middle sessions
- 23 Ending helping
- III Further Considerations
- 24 Introduction to relaxation
- 25 Managing crises
- 26 Ethical issues and dilemmas
- 27 Multicultural and gender aware helping
- 28 Getting support and being supervised
- 29 Becoming more skilled
- Appendix 1 Annotated bibliography
- Appendix 2 Professional associations in Britain, Australia and Usa
- Index