Practical Counselling & Helping Skills (4th Ed)

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`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.