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Counselling skills for becoming a wise practitioner : tools, techniques and reflections for building practice wisdom / Tony Evans.

By: Evans, Tony (Counseling psychologist) [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2015Description: 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781849056076 .Subject(s): Counseling psychology | Counseling psychologist and client | Psychotherapy | CounselingDDC classification: 158.3
Contents:
Part 1: Introduction to becoming a wiser practitioner -- Part 2: The streams of practice wisdom -- Hovering on the edge -- Jumping in -- Diving deeper -- Special equipment -- Rip tides -- Practised wisdom.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Conveying the reality of the counselling room, this book provides helpful tips and techniques to enable practitioners to develop and refine their skills.

At the heart of this book is the idea of 'situated action'. By this we mean suspending purely intellectual faculties and exploring a different kind of intelligence - one shaped in the real world - in essence what happens to theory when it meets real life. This book offers thirty four skills to achieve this kind of practice wisdom which contain a mixture of reflection, client stories, quotes and images.

This text will translate theory into practice for students and be a source of inspiration and reflection for the experienced practitioner.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-233) and indexes.

Part 1: Introduction to becoming a wiser practitioner -- Part 2: The streams of practice wisdom -- Hovering on the edge -- Jumping in -- Diving deeper -- Special equipment -- Rip tides -- Practised wisdom.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Series Editor's Foreword (p. 9)
  • Acknowledgements (p. 11)
  • Part 1 Introduction to Becoming a Wiser Practitioner (p. 13)
  • Part 2 The Streams of Practice Wisdom (p. 37)
  • 1 Hovering on the Edge (p. 40)
  • Stream 1 The Leap of Faith (p. 43)
  • Stream 2 Discovery (p. 48)
  • Stream 3 The Journey (p. 53)
  • Stream 4 Adventure (p. 58)
  • 2 Jumping In (p. 63)
  • Stream 5 Play and Exploration (p. 65)
  • Stream 6 Inner Child (p. 70)
  • Stream 7 Slowing Down (p. 80)
  • Stream 8 Story and Metaphor (p. 85)
  • Stream 9 Dialogue (p. 91)
  • Stream 10 Space and Place (p. 95)
  • 3 Diving Deeper (p. 100)
  • Stream 11 Seeing, Listening, Feeling (p. 102)
  • Stream 12 Embodiment (p. 107)
  • Stream 13 Immersion (p. 111)
  • Stream 14 Intuition (p. 116)
  • Stream 15 Empathy (p. 120)
  • Stream 16 Tacit Knowledge (p. 125)
  • Stream 17 Humour (p. 129)
  • Stream 18 Warmth (p. 134)
  • 4 Special Equipment (p. 138)
  • Stream 19 Juggling (p. 140)
  • Stream 20 Improvisation (p. 145)
  • Stream 21 Digging (p. 149)
  • Stream 22 Intersubjectivity (p. 155)
  • Stream 23 Presence (p. 160)
  • Stream 24 Bravery (p. 164)
  • Stream 25 Creativity (p. 170)
  • 5 Rip Tides (p. 175)
  • Stream 26 Struggle (p. 177)
  • Stream 27 Balance (p. 184)
  • Stream 28 Wholeness (p. 189)
  • Stream 29 Power (p. 194)
  • Stream 30 Morality (p. 198)
  • Stream 31 Difference (p. 202)
  • Stream 32 Complexity (p. 206)
  • 6 Practised Wisdom (p. 213)
  • Stream 33 Maturity (p. 214)
  • Stream 34 Craftsmanship (p. 221)
  • References (p. 231)
  • Subject Index (p. 234)
  • Author Index (p. 238)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Dr Tony Evans is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist with 17 years' experience. He is a Principal Lecturer at the University of Roehampton and Programme Convener for BSC Psychology and Counselling and BA Therapeutic Psychology.