Using Counselling Skills in Social Work

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Sally Riggall - University of Lincoln, UK

Series:
Transforming Social Work Practice Series

Other Titles in:
Communication and Interpersonal Skills in Social work | Counselling Skills

May 2012 | 192 pages | Learning Matters

This practical book enables students to develop key counselling skills that can help to enhance their practice and help to place the service-user at the centre of the decision making process. Relationship building will be a key area of the text and relevant counselling skills for achieving this in social work settings such as empathic responding will be illustrated in detail together with examples of dialogue and analysis of interventions. The role and importance of self-awareness will be discussed together with various exercises to develop the readers' own knowledge of themselves.

Introduction

Counselling Skills and Social Work

Building Relationships

Empathic Responding

Overcoming Barriers

Using Challenging Skills to Raise Concerns

Service-Users Managing Their Own Lives

Working with Loss and Grief

Working with Conflict

Counselling Skills in Groupwork

Counselling Skills in Different Settings

Conclusion

Particularly helpful to new students with case studies and activities. A very practical book for developing practice skills in communication (a key skill in the new capabilities framework).

It also identifies standards set out in the social work benchmark statement.
Students will find this very helpful as it identifies work in different social work settings.
Superb.

Ms Lorraine Ellames

Academy, Havering College of Further and Higher Education

June 14, 2012

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This text is very relevant to those students beginning to study for their social work degrees. The requirement for being able to use counselling skills is more than ever essential to the role of social work practitioners. This text has enabled me to grasp the concepts of the new PCFs and the subjects in each chapter are well set out and allied to the relevant PCFs. This text is easy to access and would also be useful for even the more experienced students or social workers wishing to refresh their skills. I will also be recommending this text to practice educators.

Mrs Nieca Boynton

Department of Social Sciences, Hull University

June 12, 2012

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