Introduction to Counselling Skills
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- Richard Nelson-Jones - Fellow of the British Psychological Society and of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
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 counseling 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 counseling 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 counseling 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 counseling skills, counseling and other professional areas including health care, management, education and social work.
This is a good practical book for all conselling students and anyone in a helping role wanting to improve their listening skills. Well structured, this book is also clearly written and full of useful examples and exercises that guide the reader on the effective application of counselling skills.
A really informative and accessible text for students commencing on a counselling skills training.
This book contains useful examples and exercises that will be beneficial for learners on an introductory counselling training course
Excellent, essential reading for both students and lecturers on any counselling and psychotherapy course. Excellent case histories illustrating the use of each skill along with a comprehensive definition of the skills.
We have found the book to be easily understandable for our first year students, but still useful for our honors level classes. Faculty members have also found it to be beneficial in the conceptualization of new modules and in the updating of old ones.
Ideal for the more advanced learners in my class.
good as counseling skills is included in communication module comprehensive bood
A broad, well explained introductory text, very accessible for students
A good introductory text outlining many core concepts.
Book of Nelson -Jones is an excellent aid in teaching students counseling skills.
In Poland, where I was doing the work of an academic teacher , there is a huge gap in the field of publishing . So far, in my teaching I used an earlier publication by this author published in 1991. The present work refers to the stages of the counseling process and very clearly characterizes them . It also contains excellent exercises that can be used for both the students and advisors in the process of self-education. In addition to the characteristics of the stages of counselling author also discusses specific issues such as multicultural and gender aware counselling . The modern approach is also reflected in the issues raised in chapter written by Jane Evans and dedicated to using technology in counseling . The idea of the book is highly humanistic , which faithfully reproduced the last chapter : "Becoming more skilled and human ."
I highly recommend this work to all counsellors and students of psychology.
- New chapter by Jane Evans
- More case studies from multi-cultural settings
- Annotated bibliography
