A practical, jargon-free guide to counselling, this text offers clear information about how counselling and helping may be put into practice, whilst acknowledging and discussing its limitations. Contents include: what is counselling and helping?; basic counselling and helping strategies; handling difficult situations; and further personal development. Drawing from a range of counselling methods, and offering a detailed reading list, this book should appeal to all students in the health professions and to all those requiring a clear account of how they might improve their own communication...

Important research findings on the role and impact of supervision in practice are presented, and practical applications of theory to practice are given. Contributors working across the range of nursing disciplines present real examples of supervision in different nursing fields.

Writing is an essential part of every health professional's job. In its second edition this volume has been expanded to include many more examples of good writing practice and examples of what others have said about writing. The new design reflects these changes. The chapter on computing and software has also been updated.

Counselling is a practical activity. The aim of this book is to offer a practical framework to enable those who work in the health profes- sions to develop a range of counselling skills. It will also offer a theoretical grounding that may serve to inform counselling practice. The book is aimed at any of those people who work in the health professions: nurses, medical staff, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, speech therapists, soeial workers, teachers of various sorts and voluntary workers. It does not seek to provide information speeific to the work of those groups but aims at...

This book is about practical ways of enhancing communication between health professionals and their patients or clients and between those professionals and their colleagues. The text covers all aspects of verbal and non-verbal communication. Divided into four parts, communication skills are identified as educational, therapeutic, organizational and personal. Within these areas teaching, presentation, computing, listening and counselling skills are discussed. There are also chapters on running groups, general management skills, self presentation, improving writing skills, assertiveness and...

The development of interpersonal skills in all health professions is of increasing interest to a wide range of teachers, students, practioners and managers. This expanded and revised edition, includes further information on reflection and counselling, and provides many activities and exercises to help the reader to devise learning strategies in the interpersonal domain. The author draws on a range of literature and research to provide a guide to teaching and learning interpersonal skills. This guide offers both the theory and practice of how to draw on people's life experience in order to...

I try to leave out the parts that people skip. Elmore Leonard This book is all about writing: it is both a practical and a personal account. When you write a book like this you put yourself on the line: you run the risk of people reading what you have written and saying 'he's saying one thing and doing another'. You stand to break the rules that you set up - quite badly. That is probably not such a terrible thing; besides, that should be part of the process of using this book. As you read it, notice when rules are broken. Check the phrasing, the sentence and paragraph construction, and see...

Part of a series this book is aimed at therapists who are concerned with rehabilitation in a very broad sense. The author argues that most people, given a little time have the personal experience to enable them to help others to improve their interpersonal skills. It is aimed at anyone in the health professions who is concerned about enhancing their own or others interpersonal competence. It offers both theory and guidance in practice and contains many practical illustrations of how-to-do-it as well as a longer illustrative package that tries to convey the running of a typical interpersonal...

Stress is a feature of all of our lives. The business of working in the health professions means that we are constantly being exposed to stress. That stress can sometimes be enriching and motivating. It has often been pointed out that stress can be positive or nega- tive. When stress is positive, it rarely needs any further attention. When it is negative, it is a problem. The first aim of this book is to discuss the various sorts of stress that may be experienced by a variety of health professionals, including social workers, nurses, doctors, physiotherapists, occu- pational therapists and...