Practical counselling skills

Description

Pracitcal Counselling Skills is a comprehensive course text for training new counsellors in basic and more advanced counselling micro-skills which come from a number of therapeutic approaches. The book enables new trainees to learn how to make informed choices about the type of skill to use and how to intergrate these skills within a sequential counselling process. It contains the following: – A wide variety of examples to illustrate each counselling micro-skill – Practice examples of client statements for use by students, with suggested counsellor responses – Client statements, without solutions, for use by teachers in helping students to learn particular micro-skills – An explanation of the therapeutic approaches related to particular micro-skills – A discussion of the way to combine skills to facilitate change – A discussion of a range of practical issues including cultural and ethical issues, the counselling environment, keeping records, the need for supervision, and the need for the counsellor to look af