Practical Counselling & Helping Skills: Text and Exercises For the Lifeskills Counselling Model

'The book's strengths are its clarity and accessibility. The layout is very user-friendly, with excellent use of headings and subheadings. The book is by no means an introduction to counselling, it is a significant resource and an up-to-date, integrative manual for counselling practice' - "British Journal of Guidance & Counselling". 'As a practical sourcebook, this is a useful guide. It includes many case scenarios and detailed analyses of the multiple facets of problems and problem solving' - "Behaviour Research Therapy". 'This new edition shows Nelson-Jones at his very best: clear, concise and helpful in a practical way. I strongly recommend this text' - Windy Dryden, Professor of Counselling, Goldsmiths College, University of London. 'A welcome update! creating a powerful and stimulating learning experience' - Pat Beardsworth, Director, Welsh Centre for Counselling Psychology, Swansea.'Richard Nelson-Jones' use of lifeskills counselling provides significant added value to our services, particularly with our more difficult clients' - David Stratford, Director, Davidson & Associates, Melbourne. 'An excellent practical book, packed with useful information.An ideal text for training courses' - Stephen Palmer, Centre for Stress Management, London. 'This book provides a secure base from which the counsellor can practise in an empathic, effective and ethical manner' - Robert Bor, Professor of Psychology, City University, London.'A unique combination of theory, skills and practical activities in a highly informative and impressively detailed text' - Ken Fisher, Bolton Institute. 'A great training book! extremely useful for a wide variety of counselling, helping and pastoral care settings' - Dr Ron Perry, Director, Institute for Counselling, Sydney. 'Invaluable and interesting text and exercises for building a broad range of counselling skills' - Dr Doug Farnill, Faculty of Medicine, Sydney University.This revised and expanded Fourth Edition incorporates into Richard Nelson-Jones bestselling counselling skills text a large number of practical exercises. It is structured around DASIE, a systematic five-stage model for assisting clients to develop specific lifeskills in order to change how they feel, think and act. The book's main emphasis is on counselling individuals, with a focus of working in problems and the problematic skills that sustain them, in the context of good counselling relationships. This book is a comprehensive source of counselling skills for trainers and practitioners in the helping services.