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Counselling Skills and Studies / Edition 2

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ISBN-10:: 1473980992
ISBN-13:: 9781473980990
Pub. Date:: 05/26/2017
Publisher:: SAGE Publications

ISBN-10:: 1473980992
ISBN-13:: 9781473980990
Pub. Date:: 05/26/2017
Publisher:: SAGE Publications

Counselling Skills and Studies / Edition 2

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Overview

Are you looking to use counselling skills to enhance your existing helping role? Are you taking the first steps towards becoming a professional counsellor? This practical guide will provide you with the ideal introduction, showing you what helping and counselling is all about.

Part 1: Counselling Skills will introduce readers to the underpinning knowledge and practical tools needed to develop a range of helping skills for use in a variety of helping roles, showing what it means to work safely and ethically.

Part 2: Counselling Studies will help them take their understanding further by considering in detail important theories and professional issues, preparing them to work as a professional counsellor.

Part 3: Counselling Study Skills will offer practical advice and hints and tips to help them make the best start on their counselling portfolio, including journal and essay writing skills, research skills and how to get inspired and overcome blocks to learning.

The Third Edition includes new content on counselling skills competencies; working with diverse client groups; online counselling; new case studies, tips and activities.

Packed full of practical activities and written in a supportive conversational style, this book is essential reading for anyone wanting to learn counselling skills or embarking on their first stage of training to be a counsellor.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473980990
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/26/2017
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 7.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Fiona is an experienced counsellor, supervisor and trainer and was Head of Qualifications at CPCAB for 13 years before moving to BACP to take up a series of roles as Head of Professional Standards, Chief Professional Standards Officer and Deputy CEO until 2023. She has always championed vocational training as an important route into the counselling profession and has a background in delivering counselling programmes in Further Education. Fiona is a contributory author to Understanding Counselling and Psychotherapy (SAGE, 2010).

Traci Postings is an experienced counsellor and supervisor and has taught extensively in adult education. She has been a training consultant in the homelessness and addiction sectors, and compiled a training manual highlighting the value of counselling skills in health and social care settings.

More recently, Traci has been involved in qualification and competence development, being committed to promoting and achieving high standards in the counselling professions.

Barry was an experienced therapist within the person-centred family of psychotherapy and counselling and a long-standing staff member of CPCAB, where they worked most recently as EDI Professional Lead and Counselling Qualifications Professional for Tailor-Made Qualifications.

Anthony Crouch is a counselling psychologist and the founder and CEO of CPCAB and the Counselling Channel. His passionate belief in high quality counselling training led to the development of the CPCAB model in the early 1990s which has been reviewed regularly over the past two decades to incorporate the latest research on effective counselling. Anthony is also the author of Inside Counselling (SAGE, 1997).

Part I: Counselling Skills
Chapter 1: Using counselling skills ethically and safely
Chapter 2: Establishing a helping relationship
Chapter 3: Working empathically as a helper
Chapter 4: Focusing on the helpee’s needs and concerns
Chapter 5: Using self-awareness in helping work
Chapter 6: Using counselling skills
Chapter 7: Using reflection and feedback to enhance counselling skills
Part II: Counselling Studies
Chapter 8: Preparing to work within an ethical and legal framework as a counsellor
Chapter 9: Understanding the counselling relationship
Chapter 10: Understanding difference and diversity to develop empathic understanding
Chapter 11: Working within a user-centred approach to counselling
Chapter 12: Using theory and insight to increase self-awareness
Chapter 13: Understanding theories of counselling in practice
Chapter 14: Using supervision to support counselling
Part III: Counselling Study Skills
Chapter 15: Motivation and blocks to learning
Chapter 16: Essay writing skills
Chapter 17: Journal writing skills
Chapter 18: Self-care
Chapter 19: Critical thinking
Chapter 20: Experiential learning
Chapter 21: Research in counselling and helping work

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Editorial Reviews

This counselling handbook is extremely informative for the new helper studying counselling for the first time. It links particularly well to the CPCAB level 2 programme .... The material in the book is easily accessible and well explained with many practical examples and exercises...I'd highly recommend this book to anyone starting out in counselling as I think you would find it supports your learning well. It even includes a chapter on essay writing skills!

Cas Stewart

The book is so easy to read and puts things into “normal” language. I'm now using it as a reference point – it is my “bible”.

Cheryl Hughes

I found it useful with information laid out in clear and simple terms...there have been a couple of times when another book has been too confusing and I have been able to have it explained clearly by the CPCAB book.

Bea Craig

Generally the book is good, easy to understand and the way it gives various examples is good.

Diane Weatherill

I initially bought this book upon starting my CPCAB Level 2 Counselling Skills course and found it to be a hugely informative introduction to counselling. However, this book turned into my counselling companion and I continue to regularly refer to it despite now being in my first year of a counselling diploma. The breakdown of the book into 3 parts makes it ideal to pinpoint what will be most helpful, the question and answer style and overall layout is excellent. I highly recommend this book to any future or current counselling students.

Heidi Shepherd

I find this book informative. It breaks everything down and shows good examples. Covers main theorists and the main approaches. Easy enough to follow for beginners.

Deirdre Mc Enhill

I found "Counselling Skills and Studies" a superb introduction into the world of Counselling. Approaching the subject with a view to a second career the book felt pitched perfectly. A clear and concise style pervaded throughout and the format of the book lends itself to good structured learning. Never teacherly, the writing spoke to me and the use of conversational examples was effective. The simplification and analysis of the 3 modalities (Psychodynamic / Person Centered / CBT) was invaluable for me as I grasp these new terms and the final section looking at Study Skills will be an essential reference for me as I progress through my studies.

Tom Wegg-Prosser

I find this book informative. It breaks everything down and shows good examples. Covers main theorists and the main approaches. Easy enough to follow for beginners.

Deirdre McEnhill

'This book is the ultimate reference tool; like having a tutor present outside the classroom. It's the book I have been waiting for, for twenty years!'

Nigel Cooper-Fowkes

Counselling Skills and Counselling Studies is written by a team from CPCAB (Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body), the largest Awarding Organisation for counselling and counselling skills courses in the UK. This book will be especially useful, if not essential for students on CPCAB courses as it clearly explains the model of counselling taught in all courses. The third section provides clear and helpful guidance to any student on the specific study skills needed in counselling courses. The question and answer format guides readers to issues they may not have thought about. The entire book is written in clear accessible language and avoids psychobabble and jargon.

Sally Aldridge

It is written clearly and accessibly and is packed with examples, activities, tables and reflections that break up the text and keep the reader engaged. These are complemented throughout by informal ‘Q&A’ passages, designed to reflect the curiosity of the new learner.

Abi Howarth

This book speaks wise words, in an engaging, practical and conversational style. It provides essential information, covers all the basics with clarity, whilst also stretching readers to think more deeply and consider their own responses to questions and answers. It will be an excellent resource for all counselling learners (and their tutors) where ever they are training.

Sally Openshaw

I found it useful with information laid out in clear and simple terms...there have been a couple of times when another book has been too confusing and I have been able to have it explained clearly by the CPCAB book.

BC

I find this book informative. It breaks everything down and shows good examples. Covers main theorists and the main approaches. Easy enough to follow for beginners.

RB

Counselling Skills and Studies / Edition 2

Counselling Skills and Studies / Edition 2

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