Publisher's Synopsis
′This New Edition shows Richard Nelson Jones at his very best: clear, concise and helpful in a practical way. I strongly recommend this text′ - Windy Dryden, Professor of Counselling, Goldsmiths College, London
′A welcome update…creating a powerful and stimulating learning experience′ Pat Beardsworth, Director, Welsh Centre for Counselling Psychology, Swansea
′Richard Nelson Jones′s use of lifeskills counselling provides significant added value to our services, particularly with our more difficult clients′ - David Stratford, Director, Davidson & Associates, Melbourne
′An excellent practical book, packed with useful information. An ideal text for training courses′ - Stephen Palmer, Centre for Stress Management, London
′This book provides a secure base from which the counsellor can practice in an empathic, effective and ethical manner′ - Robert Bor, Professor of Psychology, City University, London
′A unique combination of theory, skills and practical activities in a highly informative and impressively detailed text′ - Ken Fisher, Bolton Institute
′A great training book….extremely useful for a wide variety of counselling, helping and pastoral care settings′ - Dr Ron Perry, Director, Institute for Counselling, Sydney, Australia
′Invaluable and interesting text and exercises for building a brood range of counselling skills′ - Dr Doug Farnill, Faculty of Medicine, Sydney University, Australia
Practical Counselling and Helping Skills should prove helpful to beginner trainers, since it provides the necessary input for the teaching of counselling skills; however, experienced trainers will also find it helpful for further development or if they want to integrate new elements into their teaching. It has material that can be used for an introductory weekend course in counselling skills, or for a year-long in-depth training course. Among the audiences that Richard Nelson-Jones targets are: lecturers teaching in higher education; students training for various helping roles such as career advisers, counsellors, social workers, nurses and pastoral-care workers; students training in voluntary agencies; and those who wish to improve or develop further their counselling skills. The book is by no means an introduction to counselling: it is a significant resource and an up-to-date, integrative manual for counselling practice′ - Counsellingbooks.com
`The book′s strengths are its clarity and accessibility. The layout is very user-friendly, with excellent use of headings and subheadings. The book is by no means an introduction to counselling, it is a significant resource and an up-to-date, integrative manual for counselling practice′ - British Journal of Guidance & Counselling
`As a practical sourcebook, this is a useful guide. It includes many case scenarios and detailed analyses of the multiple facets of problems and problem solving′ - Behaviour Research Therapy
`This new edition shows Nelson-Jones at his very best: clear, concise and helpful in a practical way. I strongly recommend this text′ - Windy Dryden, Professor of Counselling, Goldsmiths College, University of London
`A welcome update… creating a powerful and stimulating learning experience′ - Pat Beardsworth, Director, Welsh Centre for Counselling Psychology, Swansea
`Richard Nelson-Jones′s use of lifeskills counselling provides significant added value to our services, particularly with our more difficult clients′ - David Stratford, Director, Davidson & Associates, Melbourne
`An excellent practical book, packed with useful information. An ideal text for training courses′ - Stephen Palmer, Centre for Stress Management, London
`This book provides a secure base from which the counsellor can practise in an empathic, effective and ethical manner′ - Robert Bor, Professor of Psychology, City University, London
`A unique combination of theory, skills and practical activities in a highly informative and impressively detailed text′ - Ken Fisher, Bolton Institute
`A great training book… extremely useful for a wide variety of counselling, helping and pastoral care settings′ - Dr Ron Perry, Director, Institute for Counselling, Sydney
`Invaluable and interesting text and exercises for building a broad range of counselling skills′ - Dr Doug Farnill, Faculty of Medicine, Sydney University
This revised and expanded Fourth Edition incorporates into Richard Nelson-Jones bestselling counselling skills text a large number of practical exercises. It is structured around DASIE, a systematic five-stage model for assisting clients to develop specific lifeskills in order to change how they feel, think and act. The book′s main emphasis is on counselling individuals, with a focus of working in problems and the problematic skills that sustain them, in the context of good counselling relationships. This book is a comprehensive source of counselling skills for trainers, and practitioners in the helping services.
