Synopsis
Praise for the First Edition
"An excellent book focusing on counseling skills for both helpers and beginner counselors. Written in an easy-to-read and informative style."
―Stephen Palmer, Director, Centre for Stress Management, London and City University
―Michael Carroll, Visiting Industrial Professor, University of Bristol
"If a basic counseling skills course were to use no other book than this, students would leave with a solid foundation in Counseling Skills and the ability to be competent helpers."
―Gladeana McMahon, FBACP, part-time Senior Lecturer, Diploma and MA Programmes, University of East London
The Second Edition of Basic Counselling Skills: A Helper′s Manual is written as a straightforward, step-by-step guide to support the training and practice of all those people who use counseling skills as part of their role. Short and accessible chapters discuss base principles of the helping relationship, then follow through universal counseling skills drawing upon a range of experiential activities from across the helping profession.
The book is divided into three parts, and all chapters have been updated for the Second Edition:
- Part I. Introduction: Lays the groundwork for understanding the use of basic counseling skills across a range of settings
- Part II. Specific Counseling Skills: Introduces a wide range of basic counseling skills. Each chapter describes the skill, provides one or more examples of its use, and then encourages readers to practice the skill by undertaking one or more activities. The skills covered include: active and attentive listening; structuring the helping process; offering challenges and giving feedback; facilitating problem-solving; practical strategies for changing thinking, feeling and communication; ending the relationship, and many more
- Part III: Further Considerations: Aims to raise readers′ awareness of dealing with clients from different backgrounds, ethical and supervision issues, and how to become more skilled
Key Features
- Offers brevity of content
- Provides practical advice
- Includes a discussion of ′boundaries′ for counselors―something that other books tend to shy away from but which are important ethical issues
Counseling skills are used by professionals and volunteers to help others in a wide range of circumstances and settings, and in this Second Edition of his bestselling text, Richard Nelson-Jones offers an ideal book for practitioners, students, and trainees in counseling and a host of other courses in the allied health professions where the teaching and practice of counseling skills is a prerequisite.
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About the Author
Richard Nelson-Jones was born in London in 1936. Having spent five years in California as a Second World War refugee, he returned in the 1960s to obtain a Masters and Ph.D from Stanford University. In 1970, he was appointed a lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Aston to establish a Diploma in Counselling in Educational Settings, which started enrolling students in 1971. During the 1970s, he was helped by having three Fulbright Professors from the United States, each for a year, who both taught students and improved his skills. During this period he broadened out from a predominantly client-centred orientation to becoming much more cognitive-behavioural. He also wrote numerous articles and the first edition of what is now The Theory and Practice of Counselling and Therapy, which was published in 1982. In addition, he chaired the British Psychological Society′s Working Party on Counselling and, in1982, became the first chairperson of the BPS Counselling Psychology Section.
In 1984, he took up a position as a counselling and later counselling psychology trainer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, where he became an Associate Professor. He continued writing research articles, articles on professional issues and books, which were published in London and Sydney. As when he worked at Aston University, he also counselled clients to keep up his skills. In 1997, he retired from RMIT and moved to Chiang Mai in Thailand. There, as well as doing some counselling and teaching, he has continued as an author of counselling and counselling psychology textbooks. A British and Australian citizen, he now divides his time between Chiang Mai and London and regularly visits Australia.
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