Practical Counselling Skills

Authors: Kathryn & David Geldard

published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

(This book is published for readers in Europe)

Practical Counselling Skills  is a comprehensive course text for training new counsellors in basic and more advanced counselling skills. The way to integrate the use of skills from a number of therapeutic approaches is described.

The book enables new trainees to learn how to make informed choices about the type of skill to use and how to integrate these skills within a sequential counselling process. It contains the following:
 
  • A wide variety of examples to illustrate each counselling micro‑skill.
 
  • Practice examples of client statements for use by students, with suggested counsellor responses.
 
  • 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 discussion of the way to combine skills to facilitate change.
 
  • A discussion of a range of practical issues including cultural and ethical issues, the counsellingenvironment, keeping records, the need for supervision, and the need for the counsellor to look after themselves.
This accessible introduction to counselling, skills is essential reading for teachers and trainees alike.
 
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