PSYC06015 2022 Counselling Skills 1: Foundational Helping Skills

This module provides a foundation level training in basic counselling skills that are suitable for use in a variety of helping roles. Learners will gain an understanding of the helping relationship and will develop skills in active listening and other basic responses as well as developing an awareness of the self. The foundational counselling skills will be conceptualised within the Relating Understanding Change (RUC) model (Nelson-Jones, 2015). Through experiential learning and reflection learners will develop personal qualities, capacity for empathy, and the appropriate skills and techniques required to develop a working alliance, while understanding the role of professional context (BACP, 2020).

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, including: -asking questions -monitoring -facilitating problem solving -negotiating homework 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. Further chapters cover professional issues including a new chapter on managing crises and chapters on ethical dilemmas, supervision, working with diversity and more.

ESSENTIALS OF INTENTIONAL INTERVIEWING, 3rd Edition, delivers a more concise and reader-friendly version of the Iveys' bestselling INTENTIONAL INTERVIEWING AND COUNSELING-one in which every sentence and concept has been reviewed to ensure both relevance and clarity for beginning helpers. The book's multicultural focus reflects the diverse nature of today's classroom-and society. The Third Edition retains the authors' renowned microskills model, which revolutionized modern understanding of the counseling and therapy process by teaching students vital interviewing skills step-by-step. This demystifying process breaks down counseling into manageable micro units and builds a bridge between theoretical understanding, mastery of the skills, and the practice of counseling. New to this edition are a chapter on crisis counseling, basic information on neuroscience as it relates to interviewing, brief summaries of key theories of helping, and revised practice exercises. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

The new edition of this text has been updated to reflect research, changes and developments in counselling. It combines theory and practice to give students a full understanding of the complexities of counselling.

Aimed at people wishing to take up counseling as a career, this practical guide teaches the basic skills and qualities required as a professional listener.

Primarily aimed at those who are interested in knowing more about counseling and acquiring basic counseling skills, First steps in Counseling will also be valuable to those already working in the area. It offers a comprehensive coverage of all aspects of

Most of us find ourselves listening to other people's problems at some time or another - either our friends' or, in the course of our work, patients, pupils, clients, colleagues. This book, written clearly in user friendly language, takes the reader step by step through a range of skills to help them become a better listener, communicator and helper in their everyday lives, progressing from inviting the person to talk to ending a helping conversation. Using plenty of examples, tips, exercises and sample conversations, the authors show how the skills described can be easily learned and can fit comfortably into everyday life. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in improving their communication and helping skills as well as those students taking introductory courses in counselling and counselling skills. KATHERYN GELDARD is a Child and Family Therapist and a visiting lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. DAVID GELDARD is a Counselling Psychologist. Together they are the authors of several books on counselling. They jointly manage a counselling practice where they specialise in working with children, adolescents, and their families. They also run training programmes for helping professionals who wish to enhance their counselling skills.

A guide to the BACP counselling skills competence framework https://www.bacp.co.uk/media/8889/bacp-counselling-skills-framework-user-guide-may20.pdf

BACP Counselling skills competence framework https://www.bacp.co.uk/media/8890/bacp-counselling-skills-competence-framework-may20.pdf

IACP Code of Ethics http://www.irish-counselling.ie/iacp-code-of-ethics

The experiential workshops will take place in suitably furnished space(s) appointed with audio visual recording equipment that will require support from the Estates Office and the IT Services Department.