Essential Counselling and Therapy Skills

`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
Counselling

`Richard Nelson-Jones' focus on skilling the client provides a valuable
toolkit, making explicit what is implicit in many counselling models. His
"Skilled Client Model" provides an excellent substitute for Egan's "Skilled
Helper" - Zoë Fitzgerald-Pool, Director of Training & Development, CSCT
Limited

`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, Norwich Centre

`The "skilled client model" is a distinct advance, I think... and very
helpful' - Ron Perry, Director, Institute of Counselling, Sydney

'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

Essential Counselling and Therapy Skills 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.

Written by leading author, Richard Nelson-Jones, Essential Counselling and
Therapy Skills is a step-by-step guide to therapeutic work using the`skilled
client model'. Central to this innovative approach, is the assumption that the
skill of counsellors and therapists lies in their capacity to impart skills to
clients. The book focuses on: establishing collaborative working
relationships; working with clients to find shared definitions of their
problems; enabling clients to improve how they think, communicate and act; and
dealing with questions of diversity, ethical practice and the value of
supervision.

Accessibly written, the book contains numerous skill-building activities and
case examples, making Essential Counselling and Therapy Skills an ideal
textbook for practical skills training in counselling, counselling psychology,
psychotherapy and other helping professions.