Practical Counselling and Helping Skills Text and Exercises for the Lifeskills Counselling Model

Paperback (trifle scratched) by Richard Nelson-Jones-no Cassell 2nd ed 1988-presents 290 pages..Focusing on feelings & life-training skills-book tight clean copy.

`The book's strengths are its clarity and accessibility. The layout is very user-friendly, with excellent use of headings and subheadings. The book is by no means an introduction to counselling, it is a significant resource and an up-to-date, integrative manual for counselling practice' - British Journal of Guidance & Counselling `As a practical sourcebook, this is a useful guide. It includes many case scenarios and detailed analyses of the multiple facets of problems and problem solving' - Behaviour Research Therapy `This new edition shows Nelson-Jones at his very best: clear, concise and helpful in a practical way. I strongly recommend this text' - Windy Dryden, Professor of Counselling, Goldsmiths College, London `A welcome update... creating a powerful and stimulating learning experience' - Pat Beardsworth, Director, Welsh Centre for Counselling Psychology, Swansea `Richard Nelson-Jones's use of lifeskills counselling provides significant added value to our services, particularly with our more difficult clients' - David Stratford, Director, Davidson & Associates, Melbourne `An excellent practical book, packed with useful information. An ideal text for training courses' - Stephen Palmer, Centre for Stress Management, London `This book provides a secure base from which the counsellor can practise in an empathic, effective and ethical manner' - Robert Bor, Professor of Psychology, City University, London `A unique combination of theory, skills and practical activities in a highly informative and impressively detailed text' - Ken Fisher, Bolton Institute `A great training book... extremely useful for a wide variety of counselling, helping and pastoral care settings' - Dr Ron Perry, Director, Institute for Counselling, Sydney `Invaluable and interesting text and exercises for building a broad range of counselling skills' - Dr Doug Farnill, Faculty of Medicine, Sydney University