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This sixth edition of Richard Nelson-Jones' bestselling book is a step-by-step guide to using counselling and helping skills with confidence and proficiency. The author's three-stage model of counselling is designed to facilitate developing lifeskills in clients and to help them to change how they feel, think, communicate and act.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
What is counselling and helping?
Create communication skills and feelings
Create mind skills
The lifeskills counselling model
PART TWO: THE RELATING STAGE
Pre-counselling contact
Listening skills
Show understanding skills
Start the counselling and helping process
PART THREE: THE UNDERSTANDING STAGE
Clarify problems skills
Assess feelings and physical reactions
Assess thinking
Assess communication and actions
Agree on a shared definition of problems
PART FOUR: THE CHANGING STAGE
Plan interventions
Deliver interventions
Interventions for thinking - 1
Interventions for thinking - 2
Interventions for communication and actions - 1
Interventions for communication and actions - 2
Interventions for feelings
Negotiate homework
Conduct middle sessions
End and assist client self-helping
PART FIVE: FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS
Relaxation Interventions
Multicultural counselling and helping
Gender-aware counselling and helping
Technology mediated counselling and helping - Jane Evans
Positive counselling and helping
Ethics in practice and training
Supervision
Personal Counselling and Continued Professional Development
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Richard Nelson-Jones was born in London in 1936. Having spent five years in California as a Second World War refugee, he returned in the 1960s to obtain a Masters and Ph.D from Stanford University. In 1970, he was appointed a lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Aston to establish a Diploma in Counselling in Educational Settings, which started enrolling students in 1971. During the 1970s, he was helped by having three Fulbright Professors from the United States, each for a year, who both taught students and improved his skills. During this period he broadened out from a predominantly client-centred orientation to becoming much more cognitive-behavioural. He also wrote numerous articles and the first edition of what is now The Theory and Practice of Counselling and Therapy, which was published in 1982. In addition, he chaired the British Psychological Society′s Working Party on Counselling and, in1982, became the first chairperson of the BPS Counselling Psychology Section.
In 1984, he took up a position as a counselling and later counselling psychology trainer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, where he became an Associate Professor. He continued writing research articles, articles on professional issues and books, which were published in London and Sydney. As when he worked at Aston University, he also counselled clients to keep up his skills. In 1997, he retired from RMIT and moved to Chiang Mai in Thailand. There, as well as doing some counselling and teaching, he has continued as an author of counselling and counselling psychology textbooks. A British and Australian citizen, he now divides his time between Chiang Mai and London and regularly visits Australia.
Zusammenfassung
This sixth edition of Richard Nelson-Jones' bestselling book is a step-by-step guide to using counselling and helping skills with confidence and proficiency. The author's three-stage model of counselling is designed to facilitate developing lifeskills in clients and to help them to change how they feel, think, communicate and act.
Bericht
Richard Nelson-Jones is a master of counselling and training and this excellent text is a tribute to what he describes as an 'integrative theoretical framework and model of practice'. Each chapter is packed with insights on the counselling relationship and the practical application of counselling skills. I value it as a resource for teaching communication skills to social workers and counsellors. It is well written, accessible, has numerous case examples and an attention to the languaging of counselling that is grounded in Richard's expertise as a counselling practitioner. Andrew Thompson
