Personal counselling skills : an integrative approach

Abstract

This volume introduces personal counseling for professional and volunteer counselors and those who train them. It is also meant for workers in professions that use these skills, such as psychology, social and welfare work, medicine, nursing, education, and human services. The authors show how to integrate major approaches — psychodynamic, humanistic/existentialist, cognitive-behavioral, and behavioral) — into the counseling process to facilitate change in the client. They discuss the counseling relationship and basic principles and skills, advanced skills such as confrontation and reframing, working with angry, depressed, grieving, or suicidal clients, counseling supervision and the supervisor's role, and issues like record keeping, confidentiality, environment, and professional ethics. Example dialogue is used to illustrate different situations. Kathryn Geldard teaches in the School of Psychology and Counseling at the Queensland U. of Technology in Australia. David Geldard is a counseling psychologist who trains and supervises probationary and experienced psychologists. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Contents: PART ONE: COUNSELLING; AN OVERVIEW; What is Counselling?; The Counselling Relationship; PART TWO: BASIC PRINCIPLES AND SKILLS; Learning the Necessary Skills; Joining and Listening; Paraphrasing of Content; Reflection of Feelings; Paraphrasing Content and Reflection of Feeling; Use and Abuse of Questions; Summarising; Creating Comfortable Closure; PART THREE: PROMOTING CHANGE THROUGH THE USE OF AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH; An Integrative Approach to Helping People Change; Combining Skills to Facilitate the Change Process; PART FOUR: ADDITIONAL SKILLS FOR PROMOTING CHANGE; Confrontation; Normalising; Reframing; Challenging Self-Destructive Beliefs; Exploring Polarities; Enabling the Client to Make Use of their Strengths; Using the 'Here and Now' Experience; Exploring Options; Facilitating Action; PART FIVE: PRACTICAL, PROFESSIONAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES; The Counselling Environment; Keeping Records of Counselling Sessions; Cultural Issues; Influence of the Counsellor's Values and Beliefs; Confidentiality and Other Ethical Issues; The Need for Supervision; Looking After Yourself; PART SIX: PRACTICAL EXAMPLES FOR STUDENTS; REFERENCES

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Chapter
Part I: COUNSELING—AN OVERVIEW
1. What is counseling?
2. The counseling relationship
Part II: BASIC PRINCIPLES AND SKILLS
3. Learning the necessary skills
4. Joining and listening
5. Paraphrasing of content
6. Reflection of feelings
7. Paraphrasing content and reflection of feeling
8. Use and abuse of questions
9. Summarizing
10. Creating comfortable closure
Part III: PROMOTING CHANGE THROUGH THE USE OF AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH
11. An integrative approach to helping people change
12. Combining skills to facilitate the change process
Part IV: ADDITIONAL SKILLS FOR PROMOTING CHANGE
13. Confrontation
14. Normalizing
15. Reframing
16. Challenging self-destructive beliefs
17. Exploring polarities
18. Enabling the client to make use of their strengths
19. Using the "here and now" experience
20. Exploring options
21. Facilitating action
Part V: PRACTICAL, PROFESSIONAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES
22. The counseling environment
23. Keeping records of counseling sessions
24. Influence of the counselor's values and beliefs
25. Confidentiality and other ethical issues
26. The need for supervision
27. Looking after yourself
PART VI: PRACTICE EXAMPLES FOR STUDENTS
PRACTICE EXAMPLES FOR STUDENTS
Index