Essential Counselling and Therapy Skills: The Skilled Client Model

by Richard Nelson-Jones

Overview

‘This is another well planned and well organized textbook specifically aimed at students in training as counsellors and psychotherapists, who have already completed an introductory course' - British Journal of Guidance and CounsellingThis book is written for trainees who are beginning to work with clients under supervision. Building on what has been learnt during introductory courses, the book supports students in the next stage of their practical skills development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761954736
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	03/28/2002
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	382
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.53(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
What Are Essential Counselling and Therapy Skills?
PART TWO: THE SKILLED CLIENT MODEL
The Skilled Client Model
The Counselling and Therapy Relationship
Assessing Feelings and Physical Reactions
Assessing Thinking, Communication and Actions
Conducting Initial Sessions
Changing Communication and Actions - 1
Changing Communication and Actions - 2
Changing Thinking - 1
Changing Thinking - 2
Changing Feelings and Physical Reactions
Conducting Middle Sessions
Consolidating Skills and Terminating Counselling and Therapy
PART THREE: PRACTICE AND TRAINING ISSUES
Diversity Sensitive Counselling and Therapy
Ethical Issues in Practice and Training
Supervision and Continuing Professional Development

Editorial Reviews

This intermediate text is intended for use in counseling and psychotherapy courses in settings such as counselor and psychotherapist education, psychology, social work, nursing, and pastoral care. Another readership consists of participants in counseling and therapy courses run by voluntary agencies. The text defines counseling skills and their components, then introduces the skilled client model of the counseling and therapy relationship and helps readers develop skills for assessing feelings, conducting sessions, and delivering interventions. Multicultural counseling, gender issues, and supervision are also discussed. The reader is assumed to have already taken an introductory counseling skills training course. Nelson-Jones is director of the Cognitive Humanistic Institute in Thailand. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

‘A text which provides trainers and trainees alike with a veritable treasure-house of creative ideas' - Brian Thorne, Emeritus Professor of Counselling, University of East Anglia and Co-Founder, The Norwich Centre

'The book is written in a clear and orderly fashion.... Therapy is a process and learning is a process too, and this textbook will undoubtedly assist trainees to move along their own process of learning and becoming reflective and effective practitioners' - Stefania Gribcic, Counselling Psychology Review

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