Counselling skills and studies - Fiona Ballentine Dykes

Are your studentslooking 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 providethem with the ideal 'way-in', showingthem what helping and counselling is all about.

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

Part 2: Counselling Studies will helpstudents take their understanding further by considering in detail important theories and professional issues, preparingthem to work as a professional counsellor.

Part 3: Counselling Study Skills will offer practical advice and hints and tips to helpstudents make the best start ontheir counselling portfolio, including journal and essay writing skills, research skills and how to get inspired and overcome blocks totheir 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.