Practical Counselling and Helping

✍ Scribed by Philip Burnard

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 160
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Practical Counselling and Helping is a practical, jargon-free guide to counselling. It offers clear information about how counselling and helping may be put into practice, whilst acknowledging and discussing its limitations.Contents include: what is counselling and helping? basic counselling and helping strategies handling difficult situations further personal development.Drawing from a range of counselling methods, and offering a useful and detailed reading list, Practical Counselling and Helping will appeal to all students in the health professions and to all those professionals requiring a clear account of how they might improve their own communication skills.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 13
What is counselling and helping?......Page 14
Why counsel or help?......Page 45
Listening as the basis of counselling and helping......Page 61
Models of the person......Page 73
Basic counselling and helping strategies......Page 81
Handling difficult situations......Page 109
Looking after yourself......Page 118
Further personal development......Page 134
Concluding points......Page 145
References......Page 147
Bibliography: further reading......Page 149
Index......Page 158