Basic Counselling Skills: A Helper’s Manual, 4th ed.
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Overview
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.
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- Introduces the essential counselling skills for the helping professions.
- Guides readers through the key skills for helping work across a range of settings.
- Explores 17 key counselling skills.
- Part 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
- Part 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 helpees’ self-talk
- 19 Improving helpees’ rules
- 20 Improving helpees’ perceptions
- 21 Negotiating homework
- 22 Conducting middle sessions
- 23 Ending helping
- Part 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
This text can be used by all students from undergraduate level to our masters level. The writing is clear and is a good aid for new students or as a refresher for more experienced students undertaking the counseling pathway.
—Dr Helen Nicholas, Institute of Health & Society, Worcester University
This is a helpful book, explaining helping skills with clarity. This book would be useful for students studying on a counselling skills course. The book takes you through the counselling process, mainly from a CBT perspective, though it also examines the core conditions necessary for a good helping relationship.
—Mrs Hilary McNair, Kent Adult Education, Hilderstone College
A great introduction to the role of the helper in counselling. Clearly written with appropriate examples throughout, and thought-provoking activities which are relevant for either group discussion or individual reflection. A very accessible text with clear guidance on how to develop basic counselling skills for helpers or those considering progression into a professional counselling role.
—Mrs Suzi Smale, Petroc, Petroc
- Title: Basic Counselling Skills: A Helper’s Manual, 4th ed.
- Author: Richard Nelson-Jones
- Edition: 4E
- Publisher: Corwin
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 216
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subject: Counseling
- ISBNs: 9781473912991, 9781473923058, 1473923050, 1473943981, 9781473943988, 1473912997
- Resource ID: LLS:BSCCNSLNGHLPMNL
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-10T19:43:05Z