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Basic counselling skills : a helper's manual / Richard Nelson-Jones.

By: Nelson-Jones, Richard.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2012Edition: 3rd ed.Description: vii, 187 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780857024169; 0857024167; 9780857024176 ; 0857024175.Subject(s): Counseling | PsychologyDDC classification: 158.3
Contents:
Part I: Introduction -- Who are counsellors and helpers? -- What are basic counselling skills? -- Helpers and clients as diverse persons -- What you bring to counselling and helping -- The helping relationship -- The helping process -- Part II: Specific counselling skills -- Understanding the internal frame of reference -- Showing attention and interest -- Paraphrasing and reflecting feelings -- Starting, structuring and summarizing -- Asking questions -- Monitoring -- Offering challenges and feedback -- Self-disclosing -- Managing resistances and making referrals -- Facilitating problem solving -- Coaching, demonstrating and rehearsing -- Training clients in relaxation -- Improving clients' self talk -- Improving clients' rules -- Improving clients' perceptions -- Negotiating homework -- Conducting middle sessions -- Terminating helping -- Part III: Further considerations -- Ethical issues and dilemmas -- Multicultural and gender aware helping -- Getting support and being supervised -- Becoming more skilled.
Summary: From leading skills expert Richard Nelson-Jones, this third edition remains the most accessible and practical introduction to the basic counselling skills essential for the helping professions. Steeped in vivid case examples, experimental activities and therapeutic dialogue, this book provides a thorough, step-by-step guide to the subject, working through each stage of the helping process. The key skills covered include: - Starting, structuring and summarizing the helping process - Active listening - Offering challenges and feedback - Facilitating problem solving - Improving clients' self-talk, rules and perceptions - Coaching, demonstrating and rehearsing - Managing resistance and changing referrals - Conducting middle sessions and terminating help Accessible, practical and concise, this bestselling book also discusses ethical issues and dilemmas, multicultural and gender aware helping, providing a master class for anyone using counselling skills in the course of their work.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This Third Editionof Basic Counselling Skillsremains the most accessible and practical introduction to the basic counseling skills essential for the helping professions.

Steeped in vivid case examples, experimental activities and therapeutic dialogue, this multidisciplinary book provides a thorough, step-by-step guide to the subject, working through each stage of the helping process.

The key skills covered include:

Starting, structuring and summarizing the helping process Active listening Offering challenges and feedback Facilitating problem solving Improving clients′ self-tale, rules and perceptions Coaching, demonstrating and rehearsing Managing resistance and changing referrals Conducting and terminating help

Accessible, practical and concise, this bestselling book also discusses ethical issues and dilemmas, multicultural and gender aware helping, providing a master class for anyone using counseling skills in the course of their work.

Bibliography: (pages 179-184) and index.

Part I: Introduction -- Who are counsellors and helpers? -- What are basic counselling skills? -- Helpers and clients as diverse persons -- What you bring to counselling and helping -- The helping relationship -- The helping process -- Part II: Specific counselling skills -- Understanding the internal frame of reference -- Showing attention and interest -- Paraphrasing and reflecting feelings -- Starting, structuring and summarizing -- Asking questions -- Monitoring -- Offering challenges and feedback -- Self-disclosing -- Managing resistances and making referrals -- Facilitating problem solving -- Coaching, demonstrating and rehearsing -- Training clients in relaxation -- Improving clients' self talk -- Improving clients' rules -- Improving clients' perceptions -- Negotiating homework -- Conducting middle sessions -- Terminating helping -- Part III: Further considerations -- Ethical issues and dilemmas -- Multicultural and gender aware helping -- Getting support and being supervised -- Becoming more skilled.

From leading skills expert Richard Nelson-Jones, this third edition remains the most accessible and practical introduction to the basic counselling skills essential for the helping professions. Steeped in vivid case examples, experimental activities and therapeutic dialogue, this book provides a thorough, step-by-step guide to the subject, working through each stage of the helping process. The key skills covered include: - Starting, structuring and summarizing the helping process - Active listening - Offering challenges and feedback - Facilitating problem solving - Improving clients' self-talk, rules and perceptions - Coaching, demonstrating and rehearsing - Managing resistance and changing referrals - Conducting middle sessions and terminating help Accessible, practical and concise, this bestselling book also discusses ethical issues and dilemmas, multicultural and gender aware helping, providing a master class for anyone using counselling skills in the course of their work.

CIT Module COUN 7011 - Core reading.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Part 1 Introduction
  • Who are counsellors and helpers?
  • What are basic counselling skills?
  • Helpers and clients as diverse persons
  • What you bring to counselling and helping
  • The helping relationship
  • The helping process
  • Part 2 Specific Counselling Skills
  • Understanding the internal frame of reference
  • Showing attention and interest
  • Paraphrasing and reflecting feelings
  • Starting, structuring and summarizing
  • Asking questions
  • Monitoring
  • Offering challenges and feedback
  • Self-disclosing
  • Managing resistances and making referrals
  • Facilitating problem solving
  • Coaching, demonstrating and rehearsing
  • Training clients in relaxation
  • Improving clients' self talk
  • Improving clients' rules
  • Improving clients' perceptions
  • Negotiating homework
  • Conducting middle sessions
  • Terminating helping
  • Part 3 Further Considerations
  • Ethical issues and dilemmas
  • Multicultural and gender aware helping
  • Getting support and being supervised
  • Becoming more skilled
  • Appendix 1 Annotated bibliography
  • Appendix 2 Professional associations in Britain, Australia and America

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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.
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