Counselling Skills and Studies by Fiona Ballantine Dykes

Counselling Skills and Studies by Fiona Ballantine Dykes

Are your students looking to use counselling skills to enhance their existing helping role or wanting to take the firsts steps towards becoming a professional counsellor? Well look no further! This practical guide will provide them with the ideal ‘way-in’, showing them what helping and counselling is all about.   Part 1: Counselling Skills will introduce students to the underpinning knowledge and practical tools needed to develop a range of helping skills for use in a variety of helping roles, showing them what it means to work safely and ethically.   Part 2: Counselling Studies will help students 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 students 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 their learning.   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.

′This book is the ultimate reference tool; like having a tutor present outside the classroomIt′s the book I have been waiting for, for twenty years!′ -- Nigel Cooper-Fowkes

This book speaks wise words, in an engaging, practical and conversational style.  It provides essential information, covers all the basics with clarity, whilst also stretching readers to think more deeply and consider their own responses to questions and answers.  It will be an excellent resource for all counselling learners (and their tutors) where ever they are training.

-- Sally Openshaw

Counselling Skills and Counselling Studies is written by a team from CPCAB (Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body), the largest Awarding Organisation for counselling and counselling skills courses in the UK. This book will be especially useful, if not essential for students on CPCAB courses as it clearly explains the model of counselling taught in all courses. The third section provides clear and helpful guidance to any student on the specific study skills needed in counselling courses. The question and answer format guides readers to issues they may not have thought about. The entire book is written in clear accessible language and avoids psychobabble and jargon.

-- Sally Aldridge
It is written clearly and accessibly and is packed with examples, activities, tables and reflections that break up the text and keep the reader engaged. These are complemented throughout by informal ‘Q&A’ passages, designed to reflect the curiosity of the new learner. -- Abi Howarth, Counsellor in training

Fiona is an experienced counsellor, supervisor and trainer and was Head of Qualifications at CPCAB for 13 years before moving to BACP to take up a series of roles as Head of Professional Standards, Chief Professional Standards Officer and Deputy CEO until 2023.  She has always championed vocational training as an important route into the counselling profession and has a background in delivering counselling programmes in Further Education. Fiona is a contributory author to Understanding Counselling and Psychotherapy (SAGE, 2010). Barry was an experienced therapist within the person-centred family of psychotherapy and counselling and a long-standing staff member of CPCAB, where they worked most recently as EDI Professional Lead and Counselling Qualifications Professional for Tailor-Made Qualifications.  Traci Postings is an experienced counsellor and supervisor and has taught extensively in adult education. She has been a training consultant in the homelessness and addiction sectors, and compiled a training manual highlighting the value of counselling skills in health and social care settings.  More recently, Traci has been involved in qualification and competence development, being committed to promoting and achieving high standards in the counselling professions. Anthony Crouch is a counselling psychologist and the founder and CEO of CPCAB and the Counselling Channel. His passionate belief in high quality counselling training led to the development of the CPCAB model in the early 1990s which has been reviewed regularly over the past two decades to incorporate the latest research on effective counselling. Anthony is also the author of Inside Counselling (SAGE, 1997).

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ISBN 13	9781446294024
ISBN 10	1446294021
Title	Counselling Skills and Studies
Author	Fiona Ballantine Dykes
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Sage Publications Ltd
Year published	2014-09-22
Number of pages	296
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