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Practical Counselling and Helping Skills
Text and Activities for the Lifeskills Counselling Model

Sixth Edition
  • Richard Nelson-Jones - Fellow of the British Psychological Society and of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy


November 2013 | 528 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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.

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.

 

 
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
 
What is counselling and helping?
 
Create communication skills and feelings
 
Create mind skills
 
The lifeskills counselling model
 
PART TWO: THE RELATING STAGE
 
Pre-counselling contact
 
Listening skills
 
Show understanding skills
 
Start the counselling and helping process
 
PART THREE: 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 FOUR: 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 FIVE: FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS
 
Relaxation Interventions
 
Multicultural counselling and helping
 
Gender-aware counselling and helping
Jane Evans
Technology mediated counselling and helping
 
Positive counselling and helping
 
Ethics in practice and training
 
Supervision
 
Personal Counselling and Continued Professional Development

A highly readable, well-structured and clear basic introduction to skills, applicable across the board. Great reference text for new trainees which includes everything the neophyte counsellor needs to know about ethical practice and context. An essential text for our year 1 students

Mrs Valerie Sanders
Counselor Education , University of Greenwich
December 4, 2013

Although considering this text for postgraduate students, I believe it to be a worthy companion at undergraduate level also, and shall be adopting it for first degree students also. It is written in accessible English, has clear case study applications of theory to practice and is clearly referenced so that students may locate topics easily. A great introduction!

Mrs Valerie Sanders
Counselor Education , University of Greenwich
December 4, 2013

This is an extremely good introduction to the process of using counselling skills. It provides a range of extremely helpful exercises by which the reader can assimilate and practice the techniques being recommended

Mr Armin Luthi
Fac of Health & Social Care Sciences, Kingston University
November 21, 2013
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