Counselling Skills in Action 4/e

Learning Skills in Counselling and Psychotherapy Overview of the Skills-Based Model Building Your Foundations The Beginning Stage: Focusing and Connection The Middle Stage: Exploring and Deepening The Ending Stage: Reflection and Transition Working in Practice: Common Issues, Competency and Self-Care Case Study Success in Practice: Using Your Learning

A wonderfully clear, focused, and practical guide to counselling skills-illustrated, throughout, with dialogues and case descriptions. Informed and informative, this book will be an excellent companion for any trainees taking the first steps in counselling and psychotherapeutic work. -- Mick Cooper For most trainee counsellors and psychotherapists and, indeed, qualified and experienced practitioners too, there is a small number of 'go to' books that shout loudly above the noise. Those books that not only inform and educate, but transcend to define practice itself. Counselling Skills in Action, now presented here in its Fourth Edition, is one of those texts. Megan Stafford and Tim Bond have crafted a piece of work that not only remains vital in today's contemporary practice landscape, but continues to push boundaries and creates space for innovation. A very welcome addition to my reading list indeed. -- Dr Andrew Reeves