CITATION

McLeod, John and McLeod, Julia. Counselling Skills: A Practical Guide for Counsellors and Helping Professionals, 2nd edition. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2011.

Counselling Skills: A Practical Guide for Counsellors and Helping Professionals, 2nd edition

Published:  October 2011 Pages: 376

eISBN: 9780335244270 | ISBN: 9780335244263
  • Front cover
  • Half title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. An invitation to counselling
  • 2. A model of embedded counselling
  • 3. Counselling skills: basic building blocks of embedded practice
  • 4. An A–Z of counselling skills
  • 5. The counselling menu: goals, tasks and methods
  • 6. Negotiating organizational realities
  • 7. Ethical principles for embedded counselling
  • 8. Working collaboratively: building a counselling relationship
  • 9. Exploring issues to make meaning and develop understanding
  • 10. Making sense of a specific problematic reaction
  • 11. Resolving difficult feelings and emotions
  • 12. Working together to change behaviour
  • 13. Problem-solving, planning and decision-making
  • 14. Finding, analysing and acting on information
  • 15. Undoing self-criticism and enhancing self-care
  • 16. Negotiating life transitions
  • 17. Dealing with difficult relationships
  • 18. Coming to terms with bereavement and loss
  • 19. Dealing with difficult situations in counselling
  • 20. Taking account of cultural diversity
  • 21. Putting it alltogether: using supervision and consultation to do good work
  • References
  • Index
  • Adverts
  • Back cover