Practical Counselling Skills: An Integrative Approach - Softcover

Geldard, Kathryn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1403945136 ISBN 13: 9781403945136

Publisher: Red Globe Press, 2005

Synopsis

This is a comprehensive course text for training new counsellors in basic and more advanced counselling micro-skills which come from a number of therapeutic approaches. The book enables new trainees to learn how to make informed choices about the type of skill to use and how to integrate it within a sequential counselling process. It discusses practical issues including ethics and culture, record-keeping, supervision, and the counselling environment, and offers explanation of the therapeutic approaches related to particular micro-skills and the ways to best combine them to facilitate change and provide effective practice.

This accessible introduction to counselling skills is essential reading for teachers and trainees alike, an excellent course text for training new counsellors from a number of theoretical approaches.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1403945136
• ISBN 13: 9781403945136
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320