Name: Counselling Skills and Studies By Fiona Ballantine Dykes
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Counselling Skills and Studies by Fiona Ballantine Dykes

Are your students looking to use counselling skills to enhance their existing helping role? Are they taking the first steps towards becoming a professional counsellor? This practical guide will provide readers with the ideal 'way-in', showing them what helping and counselling is all about.

Part 1: Counselling Skills will introduce readers to the underpinning knowledge and practical tools needed to develop a range of helping skills for use in a variety of helping roles, showing what it means to work safely and ethically.

Part 2: Counselling Studies will help them 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 them 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 learning.

The new edition now includes a more detailed discussion of key theories, has a new chapter on self care, and is fully up to date with the occupational and professional standards and ethical frameworks.

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.

Counselling Skills and Studies Reviews

This counselling handbook is extremely informative for the new helper studying counselling for the first time. It links particularly well to the CPCAB level 2 programme .... The material in the book is easily accessible and well explained with many practical examples and exercises...I'd highly recommend this book to anyone starting out in counselling as I think you would find it supports your learning well. It even includes a chapter on essay writing skills!

-- Cas Stewart
The book is so easy to read and puts things into "normal" language. I'm now using it as a reference point - it is my "bible".

-- Cheryl Hughes

I find this book informative. It breaks everything down and shows good examples. Covers main theorists and the main approaches. Easy enough to follow for beginners.

-- Deirdre McEnhill

I found it useful with information laid out in clear and simple terms...there have been a couple of times when another book has been too confusing and I have been able to have it explained clearly by the CPCAB book.

-- Bea Craig

I found "Counselling Skills and Studies" a superb introduction into the world of Counselling. Approaching the subject with a view to a second career the book felt pitched perfectly. A clear and concise style pervaded throughout and the format of the book lends itself to good structured learning. Never teacherly, the writing spoke to me and the use of conversational examples was effective. The simplification and analysis of the 3 modalities (Psychodynamic / Person Centered / CBT) was invaluable for me as I grasp these new terms and the final section looking at Study Skills will be an essential reference for me as I progress through my studies.

-- Tom Wegg-Prosser

I initially bought this book upon starting my CPCAB Level 2 Counselling Skills course and found it to be a hugely informative introduction to counselling. However, this book turned into my counselling companion and I continue to regularly refer to it despite now being in my first year of a counselling diploma. The breakdown of the book into 3 parts makes it ideal to pinpoint what will be most helpful, the question and answer style and overall layout is excellent. I highly recommend this book to any future or current counselling students.

-- Heidi Shepherd

Generally the book is good, easy to understand and the way it gives various examples is good.

-- Diane Weatherill

About Fiona Ballantine Dykes

Fiona is an experienced counsellor, supervisor and trainer and, in addition to being Head of Qualifications at the Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body (CPCAB), is also Deputy Chiare of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). 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. She is a contributory author to Understanding Counselling and Psychotherapy (SAGE, 2010). Traci is an experienced Counsellor, supervisor and tutor who has also worked extensively in homelessness and addiction settings. Over the years she has taught counselling at all levels and worked at CPCAB for over ten years to promote high standards in counselling training and qualification development. Traci currently works at BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) as a strategic project manager within the professional standards team. Barry is an experienced counsellor within the person-centred family of psychotherapy and counselling and is currently a Senior Verifier and Head of Tailor-Made Qualifications at CPCAB. He has extensive experience delivering counselling courses. He is also trained in a range of complementary therapies. 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).

Introduction by Anthony Crouch Part I - Counselling Skills Chapter 1 - Using counselling skills ethically and safely Chapter 2 - Establishing a helping relationship Chapter 3 - Working empathically as a helper Chapter 4 - Focusing on the helpee's needs and concerns Chapter 5 - Using self-awareness in helping work Chapter 6 - Using counselling skills Chapter 7 - Using reflection and feedback to enhance counselling skills Part II - Counselling Studies Chapter 8 - Preparing to work within an ethical and legal framework as a counsellor Chapter 9 - Understanding the counselling relationship Chapter 10 - Understanding difference and diversity to develop empathic understanding Chapter 11 - Working within a user-centred approach to counselling Chapter 12 - Using theory to increase self-awareness Chapter 13 - Understanding theories of counselling in practice Chapter 14 - Using supervision to support counselling Part II - Counselling Study Skills Chapter 15 - Motivation and blocks to learning Chapter 16 - Essay writing skills Chapter 17 - Journal writing skills Chapter 18 - Self care Chapter 19 - Critical thinking Chapter 20 - Experiential learning Chapter 21 - Research in counselling and helping work

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ISBN 13

9781473980990

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1473980992

Title

Counselling Skills and Studies by Fiona Ballantine Dykes

Author

Fiona Ballantine Dykes

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Paperback

Publisher

SAGE Publications Ltd

Year published

2017-05-04

Number of pages

336

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