Counselling Skills

2. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-335-24427-0
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 241 mm

"For anyone in a caring, facilitative or managing role, Counselling Skills provides a uniquely comprehensive, accessible and practical guide to interpersonal helping. It introduces a way of working that is both focused and personalised: tailored to an individual client's specific goals and preferences. The book will be invaluable to anyone who wants to help others deal with their problems."

Mick Cooper, University of Strathclyde, UK

"Not everyone possesses the skills required to ensure that professional communication is compassionate and supportive, but the skills can be learned and this book on Counselling Skills provides just the resource needed. Its authors have the experience as practitioners and teachers to imbue the text with wisdom derived from life, academia and counselling. The book is carefully crafted and beautifully written; it includes exercises and examples that enhance learning; it is comprehensive and completely relevant for anyone who seeks to use counselling skills competently in their work."

Professor Sue Wheeler, University of Leicester, UK

"The book offers a sound and accessible introduction for anyone considering formal counselling skills training … As a bereavement counsellor I will gladly keep a place for this book on my bookshelf, as it offers a useful refresher in basic skills. I would certainly recommend it to colleagues within pastoral caring roles and other caring professions."

Sally Smith, Counselling Psychology student at The University of Wolverhampton, UK

This bestselling book is designed to help counselling trainees acquire and develop the skills and techniques needed to have therapeutic impact with their clients. It also provides those in the helping professions with an easy-to-follow model of ‘embedded counselling’ that provides tools and strategies for offering counselling relationships within a diversity of work settings.

The new edition is thoroughly revised and features nine new chapters, addressing such topics as: an A-Z of practical counselling skills, dealing with difficult relationships, issues caused by cultural diversity or life transitions, and issues in loss and bereavement. The book also covers:

- Key counselling skills such as caring, listening, questioning and reframing, reflection, attunement to a client, challenging and giving advice

- Building a counselling relationship

- Developing understanding of clients’ issues

- Resolving difficult feelings and emotions

- Ethical principles of counselling practice

- Working together to change behaviour

Counselling Skills, 2nd edition is packed with exercises and information on recent studies, to help readers relate theory to their own practice. Written in an accessible, engaging style, with numerous case examples, this book is suitable for students taking courses or modules in counselling skills, counsellors in training, and any professionals who may provide counselling support within their roles, including teachers, doctors, community workers, social workers and nurses.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mcleod, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

An invitation to counselling

A model of embedded counselling

Counselling skills: basic building blocks of embedded practice

An A-Z of counselling skills

The counselling menu: goals, tasks and methods

Negotiating organizational realities

Ethical principles for embedded counselling

Working collaboratively: building a counselling relationship

Exploring issues to make meaning and develop understanding

Making sense of a specific problematic reaction

Resolving difficult feelings and emotions

Working together to change behaviour

Problem-solving, planning and decision-making

Finding, analysing and acting on information

Undoing self-criticism and enhancing self-care

Negotiating life transitions

Dealing with difficult relationships

Coming to terms with bereavement and loss

Dealing with difficult situations in counselling

Taking account of cultural diversity

Putting it all together: using supervision and consultation to do good work

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

John McLeod is Professor of Counselling at the University of Abertay Dundee. He has a national and international reputation within the field of counselling and psychotherapy, and is the author of An Introduction to Counselling (4 ed., Open University Press, 2009), which has been a dominant text in the UK counselling community for several years.