The counseling skills practice manual [electronic resource] / David R. Hutchinson.

A practical guide for students who are working on improving their counseling skills. Designed as a companion to 'The Essential Counselor' and its accompanying DVD of professionally demonstrated skills, this manual works directly with the student, offering a discussion of each skill set alo...

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Online Access: Full Text (via SAGE)
Main Author: Hutchinson, David R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, ©2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Getting started : using your natural interest and curiosity about people
  • Giving and receiving feedback
  • Getting started with a new client
  • Using questions to engage and fact-find
  • Using reflections for engagement and for the exploration of feeling
  • Using little tools with big effect : silence and simple prompts
  • Hunches, challenges, and the use of paradox
  • Making it personal : affirming and promoting immediacy
  • Ethical and cultural issues
  • Dealing with crisis
  • Working with a reluctant client
  • Putting it all together : using natural and learned skills.