Table of Contents

List of figures; List of tables; List of exercises; Part I: Counselling skills for social work; Chapter 1: Social Work: Conversations, counselling and therapeutic interventions; Chapter 2: Talking and responding; Chapter 3 : Listening; Chapter 4: Thinking, processing and reflective practice; Chapter 5: Questioning; Chapter 6: Assessing and assessment; Chapter 7: Empathy, reflection and reflective responding; Chapter 8: Affirming, advising and motivating change; Part II: The application of counselling social work to methods; Chapter 9: Applying social work counselling skills in solution focused work (SFW); Chapter 10: Counselling social work skills and motivational interviewing (MI); Chapter 11: Applying counselling social work skills in groupwork; Appendices; Appendix 1: The social work tool kit, for summary of the three skills; Appendix 4.1 Listening, thinking to inform your response; Appendix 4.2 Reflection exercise using two axis tool; Appendix 4.3 Reflection exercise using two axis tool to explore your thinking about ‘Childhood Obesity’; Appendix 4.4 Thinking filters as a framework for reflection: before, in and on action; Appendix 5.1 Checking out open questions, closed questions and reflective responses; Appendix 7.1: Empathetic Observation; Appendix 9.1: Case example: Jack; Appendix 9.2 Edited example of case: Jack; Bibliography