Basic Counselling Skills: A Helper's Manual

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
• • Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• • Publication Date: Dec 09, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 216 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1473912997
• • ISBN-13: 9781473912991