Are your students looking to use counselling skills to enhance their existing helping role? Are they taking the first steps towards becoming a professional counsellor? This practical guide will provide readers with the ideal way-in' showing them what helping & counselling is all about Part 1 Counselling Skills will introduce readers to the underpinning knowledge & practical tools needed to develop a range of helping skills for use in a variety of helping roles showing what it means to work safely & ethically Part 2 Counselling Studies will help them take their understanding further by considering in detail important theories & professional issues preparing them to work as a professional counsellor Part 3 Counselling Study Skills will offer practical advice & hints & tips to help them make the best start on their counselling portfolio including journal & essay writing skills research skills & how to get inspired & overcome blocks to learning The new edition now
Includes:: a more detailed discussion of key theories has a new chapter on self care & is fully up to date with the occupational & professional standards & ethical frameworks Packed full of practical activities & written in a supportive conversational style this book is essential reading for anyone wanting to learn counselling skills or embarking on their first stage of training to be a counsellor