Skills Training for Counselling (Counsellor Trainer & Supervisor)

✍ Scribed by Ms Francesca Inskipp

• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 129
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Skills Training for Counselling is written primarily for counsellors trainers. It is clear and useful survey by one of the most experienced and respected counsellor trainers in the UK' - Psychology Teaching Review The demand for qualified counsellors is increasing and there exists a need to train and develop individual with the skills and competencies they need to deliver this vital service. For those who are responsible for delivering and developing courses, quality is a paramount issue. This invaluable guide is intended to help those who are training counsellors, as well as those training to be counsellors, and deals with: teaching and learning skills, curriculum development; preparation and setting up of courses; teaching ideas, competencies and assessment; with a final chapter of the competencies of the trainer. Useful appendices contain further practical ideas for learning skills and identifying competencies as methods of assessment.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
1 - Which skills? Which competencies?......Page 14
2 - Frameworks and issues for adult and skills learning......Page 23
3 - The place of skills training in the curriculum......Page 30
4 - Preparation for skills teaching......Page 37
5 - Building a learning group......Page 48
6 - Teaching the skills and competencies......Page 58
7 - Assessment......Page 80
8 - Who are you as a skills trainer?......Page 94
APPENDIX 1 - Structures and techniques for teaching and practising skills......Page 105
APPENDIX 2 - Diploma in Integrative Psychosynthesis Competencies assessment forms......Page 117
References......Page 122
Index......Page 125