Introduction to Counselling Skills: Text and Activities in Bloomington, MN

Introduction to Counselling Skills, third edition is designed to help readers acquire and develop the counselling skills key to effective helping relationships, using an easy-to-follow, three-stage model. Richard Nelson-Jones details each stage in the helping process, using examples to demonstrate counselling skills in a variety of contexts. Showing how skills work in practice and the diversity of issues they can help to address, this book covers: what counselling skills are, improving listening skills, assessing feelings, thinking and communication, improving thinking skills and communication skills, conducting sessions, ethical issues.