Basic Counselling Skills: A Helper′s Manual

Richard Nelson-Jones

SAGE, Nov 12, 2015 - Psychology - 216 pages

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.

Contents

• CHAPTER 1 WHO ARE COUNSELLORS AND HELPERS?: 3
• CHAPTER 2 WHAT ARE BASIC COUNSELLING SKILLS?: 10
• CHAPTER 3 HELPERS AND HELPEES AS DIVERSE PERSONS: 15
• CHAPTER 4 WHAT YOU BRING TO COUNSELLING AND HELPING: 23
• CHAPTER 5 THE HELPING RELATIONSHIP: 33
• CHAPTER 6 THE HELPING PROCESS: 39
• PART II SPECIFIC COUNSELLING SKILLS: 45
• CHAPTER 7 UNDERSTANDING THE INTERNAL FRAME OF REFERENCE: 47
• CHAPTER 8 SHOWING ATTENTION AND INTEREST: 52
• CHAPTER 9 PARAPHRASING AND REFLECTING FEELINGS: 58
• CHAPTER 10 STARTING STRUCTURING AND SUMMARIZING: 65
• CHAPTER 11 ASKING QUESTIONS: 71
• CHAPTER 12 MONITORING: 78
• CHAPTER 13 OFFERING CHALLENGES AND FEEDBACK: 85
• CHAPTER 14 SELFDISCLOSING: 91
• CHAPTER 15 MANAGING RESISTANCES AND MAKING REFERRALS: 96
• CHAPTER 16 FACILITATING PROBLEM SOLVING: 102
• CHAPTER 17 COACHING DEMONSTRATING AND REHEARSING: 108
• CHAPTER 18 IMPROVING HELPEES SELFTALK: 114
• CHAPTER 19 IMPROVING HELPEES RULES: 120
• CHAPTER 20 IMPROVING HELPEES PERCEPTIONS: 126
• CHAPTER 21 NEGOTIATING HOMEWORK: 132
• CHAPTER 22 CONDUCTING MIDDLE SESSIONS: 137
• CHAPTER 23 ENDING HELPING: 144
• PART III FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS: 151
• CHAPTER 24 INTRODUCTION TO RELAXATION: 153
• CHAPTER 25 MANAGING CRISES: 160
• CHAPTER 26 ETHICAL ISSUES AND DILEMMAS: 165
• CHAPTER 27 MULTICULTURAL AND GENDER AWARE HELPING: 172
• CHAPTER 28 GETTING SUPPORT AND BEING SUPERVISED: 179
• CHAPTER 29 BECOMING MORE SKILLED: 184
• APPENDIX 1 ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: 191
• APPENDIX 2 PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS IN BRITAIN AUSTRALIA AND USA: 195
• INDEX: 197

About the author

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 Society′s 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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Basic Counselling Skills: A Helper′s Manual
• Author: Richard Nelson-Jones
• Edition: 4, unabridged
• Publisher: SAGE, 2015
• ISBN: 147394399X, 9781473943995
• Length: 216 pages
• Subjects: Psychology / Psychotherapy / Counseling; Psychology / Psychotherapy / General; Social Science / Human Services