Practical Counselling Skills: An Integrative Approach

ISBN-13: 9781403945136 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 320 str.

Kathryn Geldard

Opis

This book is a comprehensive, easy-to-read introduction to personal counselling, written for student counsellors and new counsellors, and those who train/supervise them. The book contains many practical examples of the use of counselling micro-skills, includes client statements for use by trainers in teaching particular skills, explores the processes of change, and describes an integrative counselling process which enables counsellors to make informed choices about which skills to use at particular stages of the counselling process. Each chapter has a learning summary and a list of suggested further reading including reference to relevant research. Each of the skills chapters includes demonstration examples of suitable client statements and counsellor responses, followed by practice examples and student assignment examples.

Spis treści

PART ONE: COUNSELLING AN OVERVIEW What is Counselling?.- The Counselling Relationship.- PART TWO: BASIC PRINCIPLES AND SKILLS Learning the Necessary Skills.- Joining and Listening.- Paraphrasing of Content.- Reflection of Feelings.- Paraphrasing Content and Reflection of Feeling.- Use and Abuse of Questions.- Summarising.- Creating Comfortable Closure.- PART THREE: PROMOTING CHANGE THROUGH THE USE OF AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH An Integrative Approach to Helping People Change.- Combining Skills to Facilitate the Change Process.- PART FOUR: ADDITIONAL SKILLS FOR PROMOTING CHANGE Confrontation.- Normalising.- Reframing.- Challenging Self-Destructive Beliefs.- Exploring Polarities.- Enabling the Client to Make Use of their Strengths.- Using the 'Here and Now' Experience.- Exploring Options.- Facilitating Action.- PART FIVE: PRACTICAL, PROFESSIONAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES The Counselling Environment.- Keeping Records of Counselling Sessions.- Cultural Issues.- Influence of the Counsellor's Values and Beliefs.- Confidentiality and Other Ethical Issues.- The Need for Supervision.- Looking After Yourself.- PART SIX: PRACTICAL EXAMPLES FOR STUDENTS REFERENCES.

O autorze

KATHRYN AND DAVID GELDARD work together in their private practice as counsellors, and as trainers and supervisors of other counsellors. Kathryn is a child and family therapist and occupational therapist. David is a psychologist. Together they have co-authored the books Counselling Skills in Everyday Life, Working with Children in Groups, Counselling Children, and Counselling Adolescents.

Blurb

This book is an excellent course text for training new counsellors in basic and more advanced counselling micro-skills which come from a number of therapeutic approaches. It enables new trainees to learn how to integrate these skills within a sequential counselling process. It is an easy to read introduction to counselling which teachers will find particularly useful because it contains the following:
- A wide variety of examples to illustrate each counselling micro-skill
- Practice examples of client statements for students with suggested counsellor response
- Client statements, without solutions, for use by teachers in helping students to learn particular micro-skills
- An explanation of the therapeutic approaches related to particular micro-skills
- A description of a sequential integrative process which enables students to make informed choices about which skills to use at particular stages of the counselling process
- A discussion of the way to combine skills to facilitate change
- A discussion of a number of practical issues including cultural and ethical issues, the counselling environment, keeping records, the need for supervision, and the need for the counsellor to look after themselves