{"product_id":"basic-counselling-skills-9781473912984","title":"Basic Counselling Skills","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 workacross a range of settings, such as counselling, nursing, social work, youth work, education and many more. It explores 17 key counselling skills, including:\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cp\u003e-asking questions\u003cbr\u003e  -monitoring\u003cbr\u003e  -facilitating problem solving\u003cbr\u003e  -negotiating homework\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Further chapters cover professional issues including a\u003cstrong\u003enew chapter on managing crises\u003c\/strong\u003eand chapters on ethical dilemmas, supervision, working with diversity and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Who are counsellors and helpers? What are basic counselling skills?\t Helpers and helpees as diverse persons What you bring to counselling and helping The helping relationship The helping process Specific counselling skills Understanding the internal frame of reference Showing attention and interest Paraphrasing and reflecting feelings Starting, structuring and summarizing Asking questions Monitoring Offering challenges and feedback Self-disclosing Managing resistances and making referrals Facilitating problem solving Coaching, demonstrating and rehearsing Improving helpees’ self-talk Improving helpees’ rules Improving helpees’ perceptions Negotiating homework Conducting middle sessions Ending helping Further considerations Introduction to relaxation Managing crises Ethical issues and dilemmas Multicultural and gender aware helping Getting support and being supervised Becoming more skilled Appendix 1       Annotated bibliography Appendix 2       Professional associations in Britain, Australia and America","brand":"Sage Publications Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019911889239,"sku":"9781473912984","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781473912984.jpg?v=1750781705","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/basic-counselling-skills-9781473912984","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}