Are you looking to use counselling skills to enhance your existing helping role? Are you taking the first steps towards becoming a professional counsellor? This practical guide will provide you with the ideal introduction, showing you what helping and counselling is all about. � Part 1: Counselling Skills�will introduce readers to the underpinning knowledge and practical tools needed to develop a range of helping skills for use in a variety of helping roles, showing what it means to work safely and ethically. � Part 2: Counselling Studies�will help them take their understanding further by considering in detail important theories and professional issues, preparing�them�to work as a professional counsellor. � Part 3: Counselling Study Skills�will offer practical advice and hints and tips to help�them make the best start on their counselling portfolio, including journal and essay writing skills, research skills and how to get inspired and overcome blocks to� learning. � The Third Edition includes new content on counselling skills competencies; working with diverse client groups; online counselling; new case studies, tips and activities. � Packed full of practical activities and written in a supportive conversational style, this book is essential reading for anyone wanting to learn counselling skills or embarking on their first stage of training to be a counsellor.
