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Introduction to counselling skills : texts and activities / Richard Nelson-Jones.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Los Angeles, Calif. ; London : SAGE, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: Fourth editionDescription: xii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1446210596
  • 9781446210598
  • 144621060X
  • 9781446210604
Other title:
  • Introduction to counseling skills : Texts and activities
  • Counseling skills
  • Counselling skills
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 361.06 23
LOC classification:
  • BF637.C6 N435 2013
Contents:
Who are counsellors and helpers? -- Creating communication skills and feelings -- Creating mind skills -- The counselling and helping process -- Counselling and helping relationships -- The relating stage. Understanding the internal frame of reference -- Showing attention and interest -- Reflecting feelings -- Starting the counselling and helping process -- Managing resistance and making referrals -- The understanding stage. Assessing feelings and physical reactions -- Assessing thinking -- Assessing communication and actions -- Challenges, feedback and self-disclosure -- Monitoring, summarizing and identifying skills -- The changing stage. Helping to solve problems -- Coaching skills : speaking, demonstrating and rehearsing -- Improving communication and actions -- Improving thinking -- Negotiating homework -- Conducting middle sessions -- Terminating counselling and helping -- Further considerations. Relaxation interventions -- Managing crises -- Multicultural and gender aware counselling and helping -- Ethical issues and dilemmas -- Training groups, supervision and support -- Using technology in counselling / Jane Evans -- Becoming more skilled and human.
Summary: From leading skills expert Richard Nelson-Jones, this bestselling book is the ideal companion for any trainer or trainee wanting to acquire and develop the counselling skills key to effective therapeutic relationships. Using an easy to follow, three-stage model, this fourth edition provides the answers to those all important questions: - What are counselling skills and why are they important? - How can I become more skilled and put the skills I have learnt into practice? - What skills will help me manage crises and work effectively with diversity, ethical issues and dilemmas? - How can I help my client to develop their own self-helping skills and maintain change after the counselling relationship has terminated? Accessible, practical and concise, this new edition is packed full of up-to-date case examples, more material on self-care and diversity, as well as a brand new chapter on "Using Technology in Counselling". This is the ideal text for introductory courses in counselling skills, counselling and other professional areas including health care, management, education and social work. Richard Nelson-Jones has many years' experience as a counsellor, trainer and psychotherapist. His books have helped train thousands of counsellors and helpers worldwide. He is a Fellow of the British and Australian Psychological Societies and of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
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Previous edition: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-324) and index.

Who are counsellors and helpers? -- Creating communication skills and feelings -- Creating mind skills -- The counselling and helping process -- Counselling and helping relationships -- The relating stage. Understanding the internal frame of reference -- Showing attention and interest -- Reflecting feelings -- Starting the counselling and helping process -- Managing resistance and making referrals -- The understanding stage. Assessing feelings and physical reactions -- Assessing thinking -- Assessing communication and actions -- Challenges, feedback and self-disclosure -- Monitoring, summarizing and identifying skills -- The changing stage. Helping to solve problems -- Coaching skills : speaking, demonstrating and rehearsing -- Improving communication and actions -- Improving thinking -- Negotiating homework -- Conducting middle sessions -- Terminating counselling and helping -- Further considerations. Relaxation interventions -- Managing crises -- Multicultural and gender aware counselling and helping -- Ethical issues and dilemmas -- Training groups, supervision and support -- Using technology in counselling / Jane Evans -- Becoming more skilled and human.

From leading skills expert Richard Nelson-Jones, this bestselling book is the ideal companion for any trainer or trainee wanting to acquire and develop the counselling skills key to effective therapeutic relationships. Using an easy to follow, three-stage model, this fourth edition provides the answers to those all important questions: - What are counselling skills and why are they important? - How can I become more skilled and put the skills I have learnt into practice? - What skills will help me manage crises and work effectively with diversity, ethical issues and dilemmas? - How can I help my client to develop their own self-helping skills and maintain change after the counselling relationship has terminated? Accessible, practical and concise, this new edition is packed full of up-to-date case examples, more material on self-care and diversity, as well as a brand new chapter on "Using Technology in Counselling". This is the ideal text for introductory courses in counselling skills, counselling and other professional areas including health care, management, education and social work. Richard Nelson-Jones has many years' experience as a counsellor, trainer and psychotherapist. His books have helped train thousands of counsellors and helpers worldwide. He is a Fellow of the British and Australian Psychological Societies and of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

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