PSYC06017 2022 Counselling Skills 2: Foundational Action Oriented Skills

Building on the relationship building and active listening skills developed in Year One, learners are introduced to basic action oriented counselling skills appropriate to a variety of helping roles. The focus of this experiential skills training module is understanding change in others and in oneself through the study and application of conceptual and practice based frameworks such as the Stages of Change model (Prochaska & DiClementes, 1983) and Motivational Interviewing (Miller & Rollnick, 2013). Recognising the autonomy of the client or help seeker, learners will consider how to respond to empathic opportunities with counselling skills that support change. Contextual aspects relating to role, referrals, support, and supervision are explored.

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.

This second edition is a step by step practical guide to counselling skills for trainees and practitioners. It presents key skills clearly and concisely.

Now adapted for the Europe, Middle East and African market, Gerard Egan's The Skilled Helper: A Client-Centred Approach teaches students a proven step-by-step counselling process to enable them to become confident and competent helpers. Internationally recognised for its emphasis on the collaborative nature of the therapist-client relationship and the vital importance of a client-centred approach, the text offers a practical three-stage model which drives client problem-managing and opportunity-developing action. The book integrates the most relevant aspects of different theoretical orientations (humanistic, cognitive, cognitive-behavioural, and solution-focused) into a pragmatic approach to helping.

An excellent guide to interviewing in the helping professions, ESSENTIALS OF INTENTIONAL INTERVIEWING, 2nd Edition delivers a more concise and accessible version of the Iveys' bestselling INTENTIONAL INTERVIEWING AND COUNSELING. Ideal for beginning helpers, the Second Edition retains the authors' proven Microskills model of teaching vital interviewing skills step by step. Its multicultural focus reflects the diverse nature of today's society. It also integrates the five systems of helping--person-centered, decisional counseling, brief counseling, crisis counseling, and coaching--and includes new content addressing such critical topics as psychoeducational skills and Internet counseling.

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.

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.