TY - BOOK AU - Nelson-Jones,Richard TI - Practical counselling and helping skills: text and activities for the lifeskills counselling model SN - 1446269841 AV - BF637.C6 N452 2014 U1 - 361.06 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Thousand Oaks, California PB - SAGE KW - Counseling KW - Psychotherapy N1 - Previous edition: 2005; Includes bibliographical references and index; Part 1; Introduction : --; What is counselling and helping? --; Create communication skills and feelings --; Create mind skills --; The lifeskills counselling model -- --; Part 2; the Relating Stage : --; Pre-counselling contact --; Listening skills --; Show understanding skills --; Start the counselling and helping process -- --; Part 3; the Understanding Stage : --; Clarify problems skills --; Assess feelings and physical reactions --; Assess thinking --; Assess communication and actions --; Agree on a shared definition of problems -- --; Part 4; the Changing Stage : --; Plan interventions --; Deliver interventions --; Interventions for thinking - 1 --; Interventions for thinking - 2 --; Interventions for communication and actions - 1 --; Interventions for communication and actions - 2 --; Interventions for feelings --; Negotiate homework --; Conduct middle sessions --; End and assist client self-helping -- --; Part 5; Further Considerations : --; Relaxation Interventions --; Multicultural counselling and helping --; Gender-aware counselling and helping --; Technology mediated counselling and helping --; Positive counselling and helping --; Ethics in practice and training --; Supervision --; Personal Counselling and Continued Professional Development N2 - "This sixth edition provides a step-by-step guide to using counselling and helping skills with confidence and proficiency. The author's three-stage model of counselling - relating, understanding and changing - is designed to facilitate developing lifeskills in clients and to help them to change how they feel, think, communicate and act. It includes new chapters on 'Technology mediated counselling and helping', with updated research and references throughout. Using practical activities and case examples, the book takes you beyond the basics to more advanced skills, making it an essential companion for all counselling skills courses."--Publisher's website ER -