Basic Counselling Skills

This practical bestseller from leading expert Richard Nelson-Jones introduces the essential counselling skills for the helping professions. Now in its fourth edition, it guides you through the key skills for helping work across a range of settings, such as counselling, nursing, social work, youth work, education and many more. It explores 17 key counselling skills, includin <br/> <br/> <p>-asking questions<br/> -monitoring<br/> -facilitating problem solving<br/> -negotiating homework <br/> <br/> Each chapter describes a particular skill, illustrates it using clear case examples across a range of settings and then helps you consolidate and practise what you′ve learned through a set of creative activities. <br/> <br/> Further chapters cover professional issues including a <strong>new chapter on managing crises</strong> and chapters on ethical dilemmas, supervision, working with diversity and more.</p>