| Description |
viii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Counseling : an overview -- What is counseling? -- The counseling relationship -- 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 -- Summarizing -- Creating comfortable closure -- Promoting change through the use of an integrative approach -- An integrative approach to helping people change -- Combining skills to facilitate the change process -- Additional skills for promoting change -- Confrontation -- Normalizing -- 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 -- Practical, professional and ethical issues -- The counseling environment -- Keeping records of counseling sessions -- Influence of the counselor's values and beliefs -- Confidentiality and other ethical issues -- The need for supervision -- Looking after yourself -- Practice examples for students |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Counseling.
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| Author |
Geldard, David.
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| LC no. |
2007036010 |
| ISBN |
9780398077877 (paperback) |
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0398077878 (paperback) |
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9780398077860 (hard) |
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039807786X (hard) |
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