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Counselling Skills and Studies

Counselling Skills and Studies

by Fiona Dykes (Author), Anthony Crouch (Author), Traci Postings (Author), Fiona Dykes (Author), Barry Kopp (Author)

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    Paperback 2014

    $28.01
Synopsis

Are your students looking to use counselling skills to enhance their existing helping role or wanting to take the first steps towards becoming a professional counsellor? Well look no further! This practical guide will provide them with the ideal `way-in', showing them what helping and counselling is all about.

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

Part 2: Counselling Studies will help students 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 students 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 their learning.

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.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 296
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: 22 Sep 2014
ISBN 10: 1446294021
ISBN 13: 9781446294024

Media Reviews
'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

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

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, Counsellor in training
Author Bio
Fiona is an experienced counsellor, supervisor and trainer and, in addition to being Head of Qualifications at the Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body (CPCAB), is also Deputy Chiare of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). 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. She is a contributory author to Understanding Counselling and Psychotherapy (SAGE, 2010). Barry is an experienced counsellor within the person-centred family of psychotherapy and counselling and is currently a Senior Verifier and Head of Tailor-Made Qualifications at CPCAB. He has extensive experience delivering counselling courses. He is also trained in a range of complementary therapies. Traci is an experienced counsellor and supervisor. She has taught extensively in adult education and is a training consultant in the homelessness sector. She has also compiled a training manual which highlights the value of counselling skills in health and social care. She has a special interest in substance misuse and addiction and is currently Qualification Leader for Levels 2 and 3 at CPCAB. 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).