Basic Personal Counselling: A Training Manual for Counsellors

✍ Scribed by David Geldard; Kathryn Geldard; Rebecca Yin Foo

• Publisher: Cengage Learning Australia
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 400
• Edition: 8
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Basic Personal Counselling is an easy to read introduction to counselling that reflects current best practice. It teaches core interviewing skills and provides a framework of practical examples and training group exercises to enable students to progressively build a skill repertoire. The book is designed to prepare students for field placement and therefore has a strong vocational focus.
' Introduces counselling skills in a logical sequence and provides practical examples of the skills in action
' Discusses the process of change involved in counselling
' Provides approaches for counselling people with specific problems such as anger, depression, grief, suicidal ideation
' Discusses professional issues including: confidentiality, ethics, record keeping

✦ Table of Contents

PART 1 THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF COUNSELLING
1 What is counselling? 2
2 The counselling relationship 11
3 Influence of the counsellor's values 19

PART 2 FOUNDATION SKILLS 27
4 Learning foundation skills
5 Joining and listening 34
6 Reflection of content (paraphrasing)
7 Reflection of feelings 51
8 Reflection of content and feelings 59
9 Use and abuse of questions 65
10 Summarising 80
11 Matching language and metaphor 84
12 Creating comfortable closure 91

PART 3 PROMOTING CHANGE 107
13 Various approaches to counselling 108
14 Working collaboratively
15 An integrative approach to helping a person change 124
16 Combining skills to facilitate the change process 134

PART 4 ADDITIONAL SKILLS FOR PROMOTING CHANGE 145
17 Normalising 146
18 Using the here and now experience 150
19 Confrontation 161
20 Challenging self-destructive beliefs 166
21 Externalising 173
22 Solution-focused counselling skills 178
23 Exploring polarities 184
24 Reframing 189
25 Making decisions 196
26 Facilitating action 212
27 Experiential counselling skills 211
28 Facilitating relaxation 219

PART 5 DEALING WITH PARTICULAR PROBLEMS 229
29 Counselling those troubled by addiction 230
30 Counselling those troubled by anger 237
31 Counselling those troubled by depression 245
32 Counselling those troubled by grief and loss 252
33 Crisis intervention 258
34 Responding to suicidal intentions 268

PART 6 TECHNOLOGY AND COUNSELLING 283
35 Telephone counselling 284
36 Internet counselling 305

PART 7 PROFESSIONAL ISSUES 317
37 The counselling environment 318
38 Keeping records of counselling sessions 322
39 Cultural issues 327
40 Confidentiality and other ethical issues 339
41 Counsellor training and the need for supervision 348
42 Looking after yourself 358

Glossary 374
Index 382