Basic Counselling Skills: A Helper′s Manual (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781473912984)

This practical bestseller from leading expert Richard Nelson-Jones introduces the essential counselling skills for the helping professions. Now in its fourth edition, it guides you through the key skills for helping work across a range of settings, such as counselling, nursing, social work, youth work, education and many more. It explores 17 key counselling skills, including:

-asking questions
-monitoring
-facilitating problem solving
-negotiating homework

Each chapter describes a particular skill, illustrates it using clear case examples across a range of settings and then helps you consolidate and practise what you′ve learned through a set of creative activities.

Further chapters cover professional issues including a new chapter on managing crises and chapters on ethical dilemmas, supervision, working with diversity and more.

Author: Richard Nelson-Jones
ISBN-10: 1473912989
ISBN-13: 9781473912984
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Language: English
Published: 12/09/2015
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.80w x 0.70d