Basic counselling skills. 14 : A helper's manual / Richard Nelson-Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nelson-Jones, Richard, author.

Series:

Core textbook

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Counselling and Psychotherapy--Counseling Skills.

Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

4th edition.

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications, 2015.

Summary:

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 work across 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.

Contents:

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Who Are Counsellors and Helpers? What Are Basic Counselling Skills? Helpers and Clients as Diverse Persons What You Bring to Counselling and Helping The Helping Relationship The Helping Process PART TWO: SPECIFIC COUNSELLING SKILLS Understanding the Internal Frame of Reference Showing Attention and Interest Paraphrasing and Reflecting Feelings Starting, Structuring and Summarizing Asking Questions Monitoring Offering Challenges and Feedback Self-Disclosing Managing Resistances and Making Referrals Facilitating Problem Solving Coaching, Demonstrating and Rehearsing Training Clients in Relaxation Improving Clients' Self Talk Improving Clients' Rules Improving Clients' Perceptions Negotiating Homework Conducting Middle Sessions Terminating Helping PART THREE: FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS Ethical Issues and Dilemmas Multicultural and Gender Aware Helping Getting Support and Being Supervised Becoming more Skilled Appendix 1: Annotated Bibliography Appendix 2: Professional Associations in Britain, Australia and America

Notes:

Previous ed.: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Paperback:

ISBN:

9781473912984

1473912989

9781473943995

147394399X

9781446253854

1446253856

OCLC:

1337944534

Publisher Number:

244885