Basic Personal Counselling (7th Edition) A Training Manual for Counsellors David Geldard Kathryn Geldard

Basic Personal Counselling is an easy-to-read introduction to counselling skills for both professional and volunteer counsellors and workers in the helping professions. Fully up-to-date, and reflecting current best practice, this Australian text:

• Introduces counselling skills in a logical sequence and provides practical examples of the skills in action
• Shows how combining counselling skills using an integrative approach can produce change
• Discusses the processes of change involved in counselling
• Provides approaches for counselling people with specific problems such as anger, depression, grief, or suicidal ideation
• Discusses professional issues including confidentiality, ethics, record-keeping, arrangement of a counselling room, the need to care for yourself and the importance and use of supervision.