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

Description: Practical Counselling and Helping Skills by Richard Nelson-Jones This sixth edition of Richard Nelson-Jones′ bestselling book is a step-by-step guide to using counselling and helping skills with confidence and proficiency. The author′s three-stage model of counselling is designed to facilitate developing lifeskills in clients and to help them to change how they feel, think, communicate and act. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This sixth edition provides a step-by-step guide to using counselling and helping skills with confidence and proficiency. The authors 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. Author Biography Richard Nelson-Jones was born in London in 1936. Having spent five years in California as a Second World War refugee, he returned in the 1960s to obtain a Masters and Ph.D from Stanford University. In 1970, he was appointed a lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Aston to establish a Diploma in Counselling in Educational Settings, which started enrolling students in 1971. During the 1970s, he was helped by having three Fulbright Professors from the United States, each for a year, who both taught students and improved his skills. During this period he broadened out from a predominantly client-centred orientation to becoming much more cognitive-behavioural. He also wrote numerous articles and the first edition of what is now The Theory and Practice of Counselling and Therapy, which was published in 1982. In addition, he chaired the British Psychological Societys Working Party on Counselling and, in1982, became the first chairperson of the BPS Counselling Psychology Section. In 1984, he took up a position as a counselling and later counselling psychology trainer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, where he became an Associate Professor. He continued writing research articles, articles on professional issues and books, which were published in London and Sydney. As when he worked at Aston University, he also counselled clients to keep up his skills. In 1997, he retired from RMIT and moved to Chiang Mai in Thailand. There, as well as doing some counselling and teaching, he has continued as an author of counselling and counselling psychology textbooks. A British and Australian citizen, he now divides his time between Chiang Mai and London and regularly visits Australia. Table of Contents PART ONE: INTRODUCTIONWhat is counselling and helping?Create communication skills and feelingsCreate mind skillsThe lifeskills counselling modelPART TWO: THE RELATING STAGEPre-counselling contactListening skillsShow understanding skillsStart the counselling and helping processPART THREE: THE UNDERSTANDING STAGEClarify problems skillsAssess feelings and physical reactionsAssess thinkingAssess communication and actionsAgree on a shared definition of problemsPART FOUR: THE CHANGING STAGEPlan interventionsDeliver interventionsInterventions for thinking - 1Interventions for thinking - 2Interventions for communication and actions - 1Interventions for communication and actions - 2Interventions for feelingsNegotiate homeworkConduct middle sessionsEnd and assist client self-helpingPART FIVE: FURTHER CONSIDERATIONSRelaxation InterventionsMulticultural counselling and helpingGender-aware counselling and helpingTechnology mediated counselling and helping - Jane EvansPositive counselling and helpingEthics in practice and trainingSupervisionPersonal Counselling and Continued Professional Development Review Richard Nelson-Jones is a master of counselling and training and this excellent text is a tribute to what he describes as an ′integrative theoretical framework and model of practice′. Each chapter is packed with insights on the counselling relationship and the practical application of counselling skills. I value it as a resource for teaching communication skills to social workers and counsellors. It is well written, accessible, has numerous case examples and an attention to the languaging of counselling that is grounded in Richard′s expertise as a counselling practitioner. -- Andrew ThompsonThis sixth edition of Practical Counselling and Helping Skills is a formidable achievement. Its comprehensiveness, clarity of style and structure and its attention to the latest developments in the field make it an outstanding resource for experienced practitioners, trainers and trainees alike. What is more, Richard Nelson-Jones reflectiveness on his immense experience over many decades and in differing cultures gives the book a quality of generous inclusiveness which is rare in the counselling literature. Admirers of such contrasting figures as Carl Rogers, Aaron Beck, Albert Ellis and Gerard Egan will all find much to value in its pages -- Brian ThorneThis is a key textbook for anybody wanting to read an influential summary of all the major approaches and theories of counselling. Detailed, up-to-date explanations and very clear writing makes the book useful to a wide audience: from students and researchers at all levels, to practitioners and their clients. -- Violet FyffeAs I read the 6th edition of Richard Nelson-Jones′ Practical Counselling and Helping Skills (PCaHS) I recalled the excitement I experienced when I read the first edition. That was a time when a skills-based approach to counselling was a topic of fierce controversy. It was refreshing to have a book which extended the model from helping to living. Through subsequent editions, Nelson-Jones′ basic three-stage helping model has endured because of its utility across a wide range of practice contexts. Many of the ideas which once seemed radical are now accepted widely. New developments, notably thinking and feeling skills, and positive psychology, have been incorporated. PCaHS has always been distinguishable from more basic books on the topic by both its comprehensiveness and its unity. It is this unity of organisation alone which makes me reluctant to think of it as a ′handbook′! It will be a valuable resource for all who want to be challenged to go beyond the simplistic notions of helping currently being fostered by some promoters of life-coaching. -- Jim McLennan Review Quote This sixth edition of Practical Counselling and Helping Skills is a formidable achievement. Its comprehensiveness, clarity of style and structure and its attention to the latest developments in the field make it an outstanding resource for experienced practitioners, trainers and trainees alike. What is more, Richard Nelson-Jones reflectiveness on his immense experience over many decades and in differing cultures gives the book a quality of generous inclusiveness which is rare in the counselling literature. Admirers of such contrasting figures as Carl Rogers, Aaron Beck, Albert Ellis and Gerard Egan will all find much to value in its pages Details ISBN1446269841 Author Richard Nelson-Jones Year 2013 Edition 6th ISBN-10 1446269841 ISBN-13 9781446269848 Format Hardcover Subtitle Text and Activities for the Lifeskills Counselling Model Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 158.3 Replaces 9781412903875 Pages 528 Short Title PRAC COUNSELLING & HELPING SKI Language English Media Book Illustrations illustrations Publication Date 2013-11-14 UK Release Date 2013-11-14 NZ Release Date 2013-11-14 Edited by James J. Fawcett Birth 1974 Affiliation Former Professor of International Commerical Law, University of Nottingham Position Former Professor of International Commerical Law Qualifications Ph.D. Edition Description 6th Revised edition Alternative 9781446269855 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Imprint Sage Publications Ltd Publisher Sage Publications Ltd AU Release Date 2013-11-13 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:160684729;

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