This sixth edition provides a step-by-step guide to using counselling and helping skills with confidence and proficiency. The author's three-stage model of counselling - relating, understanding and changing - is designed to facilitate developing lifeskills in clients and to help them to change how they feel, think, communicate and act.
It includes new chapters on 'Technology mediated counselling and helping', with updated research and references throughout.
Using practical activities and case examples, the book takes you beyond the basics to more advanced skills, making it an essential companion for all counselling skills courses.
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.
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
What is counselling and helping?
Create communication skills and feelings
Create mind skills
The lifeskills counselling model
PART TWO: THE RELATING STAGE
Pre-counselling contact
Listening skills
Show understanding skills
Start the counselling and helping process
PART THREE: THE UNDERSTANDING STAGE
Clarify problems skills
Assess feelings and physical reactions
Assess thinking
Assess communication and actions
Agree on a shared definition of problems
PART FOUR: THE CHANGING STAGE
Plan interventions
Deliver interventions
Interventions for thinking - 1
Interventions for thinking - 2
Interventions for communication and actions - 1
Interventions for communication and actions - 2
Interventions for feelings
Negotiate homework
Conduct middle sessions
End and assist client self-helping
PART FIVE: FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS
Relaxation Interventions
Multicultural counselling and helping
Gender-aware counselling and helping
Technology mediated counselling and helping - Jane Evans
Positive counselling and helping
Ethics in practice and training
Supervision
Personal Counselling and Continued Professional Development
