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Book Synopsis`This is another well planned and well organized textbook specifically aimed at students in training as counsellors and psychotherapists, who have already completed an introductory course' -
British Journal of Guidance and Counselling`Richard Nelson-Jones' focus on skilling the client provides a valuable toolkit, making explicit what is implicit in many counselling models. His Skilled Client Model provides an excellent substitute for Egan's Skilled Helper - Zoë Fitzgerald-Pool, Director of Training & Development, CSCT Limited
`A text which provides trainers and trainees alike with a veritable treasure-house of creative ideas' - Brian Thorne, Emeritus Professor of Counselling, University of East Anglia and Co-Founder, Norwich Centre
`The skilled client model is a distinct advance, I think... and very helpful' - Ron Perry, Director, Institute of Counselling, Sydney
Trade Review`A text which provides trainers and trainees alike with a veritable treasure-house of creative ideas′ -
Brian Thorne, Emeritus Professor of Counselling, University of East Anglia and Co-Founder, The Norwich Centre ′The book is written in a clear and orderly fashion.... Therapy is a process and learning is a process too, and this textbook will undoubtedly assist trainees to move along their own process of learning and becoming reflective and effective practitioners′ - Stefania Gribcic, Counselling Psychology Review
Table of ContentsPART ONE: INTRODUCTION What Are Essential Counselling and Therapy Skills? PART TWO: THE SKILLED CLIENT MODEL The Skilled Client Model The Counselling and Therapy Relationship Assessing Feelings and Physical Reactions Assessing Thinking, Communication and Actions Conducting Initial Sessions Changing Communication and Actions - 1 Changing Communication and Actions - 2 Changing Thinking - 1 Changing Thinking - 2 Changing Feelings and Physical Reactions Conducting Middle Sessions Consolidating Skills and Terminating Counselling and Therapy PART THREE: PRACTICE AND TRAINING ISSUES Diversity Sensitive Counselling and Therapy Ethical Issues in Practice and Training Supervision and Continuing Professional Development
