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

Sixth Edition
  • Richard Nelson-Jones - Fellow of the British Psychological Society and of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy


November 2013 | 528 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
This sixth edition provides a step-by-step guide to using counselling and helping skills with confidence and proficiency. The author's three-stage model of counselling - relating, understanding and changing - is designed to facilitate developing lifeskills in clients and to help them to change how they feel, think, communicate and act.

It includes new chapters on 'Technology mediated counselling and helping', with updated research and references throughout.

Using practical activities and case examples, the book takes you beyond the basics to more advanced skills, making it an essential companion for all counselling skills courses.

Richard Nelson-Jones has many years' experience as a counsellor, trainer and psychotherapist. His books have helped train thousands of counsellors and helpers worldwide. He is a Fellow of the British and Australian Psychological Societies and of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

 

 
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
 
What is counselling and helping?
 
Create communication skills and feelings
 
Create mind skills
 
The lifeskills counselling model
 
PART TWO: THE RELATING STAGE
 
Pre-counselling contact
 
Listening skills
 
Show understanding skills
 
Start the counselling and helping process
 
PART THREE: THE UNDERSTANDING STAGE
 
Clarify problems skills
 
Assess feelings and physical reactions
 
Assess thinking
 
Assess communication and actions
 
Agree on a shared definition of problems
 
PART FOUR: THE CHANGING STAGE
 
Plan interventions
 
Deliver interventions
 
Interventions for thinking - 1
 
Interventions for thinking - 2
 
Interventions for communication and actions - 1
 
Interventions for communication and actions - 2
 
Interventions for feelings
 
Negotiate homework
 
Conduct middle sessions
 
End and assist client self-helping
 
PART FIVE: FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS
 
Relaxation Interventions
 
Multicultural counselling and helping
 
Gender-aware counselling and helping
Jane Evans
Technology mediated counselling and helping
 
Positive counselling and helping
 
Ethics in practice and training
 
Supervision
 
Personal Counselling and Continued Professional Development

Good book for added research to the subject under discussion

Miss Sarah Bishop
Public Services, South Gloucestershire and Stroud College
March 20, 2015

Very useful addition to texts used on the course for midwives during genetic counselling in haemoglobinopathies.

Ms Chioma Onyedinma-Ndubueze
Adult Nursing, London South Bank University
March 5, 2015

This is an informative and comprehensive book, which provides robust links to practice.

Dr Gillian Constable
Division of Social Work, Glasgow Caledonian University
February 5, 2015

Very useful text and will be incprporated into the Psychological therapies awarde.

Library informed

Mr Brian Bell
School of Health and Wellbeing, Wolverhampton University
October 13, 2014

an easy to access work for level 5 students and is also useful to level 6 students for exam revision

Mrs Sonia Pieczenko-Feldges
Care , University Centre Grimsby
April 3, 2014

This book encourages students to look at generic counselling and helping skills. The case studies and practical exercises are used in class

Ms Stella Burgoyne
Business & Professional Studies, Blackpool and the Fylde College
March 31, 2014

This has proved a useful book so far in relation to case studies and activities for student involvement. Some of the concepts take the students to the next level of intereventions and in that respect have generated much discussion in class in relation to how theory is put into practice (or not in some cases).
The book has been on loan to a number of students who have reported back positively.

Mrs Jackie Robertson
School of Health, Community and Education Studies, Northumbria University
February 24, 2014

A very welcome updated edition of a core text.

Ms Alison Fielding
Department of Professional Development, Canterbury Christ Church University
January 14, 2014

Excellent book for level 2 and above. Very easy to read and understand. Would definitely recommend this book to my students.

Elaine Squires
Counselling, Doncaster College
January 13, 2014

A really good practical text for counselling and mental health students.

Mr Paul McCreary
Department of Mental Health Nursing, Bucks New University
December 18, 2013