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This 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 integrate it within a sequential counselling process. It discusses practical issues including ethics and culture, record-keeping, supervision, and the counselling environment, and offers explanation of the therapeutic approaches related to particular micro-skills and the ways to best combine them to facilitate change and provide effective practice.
This accessible introduction to counselling skills is essential reading for teachers and trainees alike, an excellent course text for training new counsellors from a number of theoretical approaches.
Table of Contents
What is Counselling?
The Counselling Relationship
PART TWO: BASIC PRINCIPLES AND SKILLS
Learning the Necessary Skills
Joining and Listening
Paraphrasing of Content
Reflection of Feelings
Paraphrasing Content and Reflection of Feeling
Use and Abuse of Questions
Summarising
Creating Comfortable Closure
PART THREE: PROMOTING CHANGE THROUGH THE USE OF AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH
An Integrative Approach to Helping People Change
Combining Skills to Facilitate the Change Process
PART FOUR: ADDITIONAL SKILLS FOR PROMOTING CHANGE
Confrontation
Normalising
Reframing
Challenging Self-Destructive Beliefs
Exploring Polarities
Enabling the Client to Make Use of their Strengths
Using the 'Here and Now' Experience
Exploring Options
Facilitating Action
PART FIVE: PRACTICAL, PROFESSIONAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES
The Counselling Environment
Keeping Records of Counselling Sessions
Cultural Issues
Influence of the Counsellor's Values and Beliefs
Confidentiality and Other Ethical Issues
The Need for Supervision
Looking After Yourself
PART SIX: PRACTICAL EXAMPLES FOR STUDENTS REFERENCES.
Product details
| Published | 14 Oct 2005 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 320 |
| ISBN | 9781403945136 |
| Imprint | Red Globe Press |
| Dimensions | 0 x 0 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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