Practical Counselling and Helping Skills by Richard Nelson-Jones

Practical Counselling and Helping Skills by Richard Nelson-Jones

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, this 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.

`The book′s strengths are its clarity and accessibilityThe 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, London

`A welcome update… creating a powerful and stimulating learning experience′ - Pat Beardsworth, Director, Welsh Centre for Counselling Psychology, Swansea

`Richard Nelson-Jones′s 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

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.

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ISBN 13	9780826453495
ISBN 10	082645349X
Title	Practical Counselling and Helping Skills
Author	Richard Nelson Jones
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Sage Publications Ltd
Year published	2000-01-30
Number of pages	544
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