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Counselling Skills for Becoming a Wiser Practitioner Tony Evans

Counselling Skills for Becoming a Wiser Practitioner By Tony Evans

Counselling Skills for Becoming a Wiser Practitioner by Tony Evans


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Summary

This experienced practitioner and lecturer reveals the tools and techniques he has found most effective in his career. From interactions with students and experiences with clients, he is able to convey the real-life experience of the counselling room to help students and qualified practitioners to gain or consolidate practice skills.

Counselling Skills for Becoming a Wiser Practitioner Summary

Counselling Skills for Becoming a Wiser Practitioner: Tools, Techniques and Reflections for Building Practice Wisdom by Tony Evans

Conveying the reality of the counselling room, this book provides helpful tips and techniques to enable practitioners to develop and refine their skills.

At the heart of this book is the idea of 'situated action'. By this we mean suspending purely intellectual faculties and exploring a different kind of intelligence - one shaped in the real world - in essence what happens to theory when it meets real life. This book offers thirty four skills to achieve this kind of practice wisdom which contain a mixture of reflection, client stories, quotes and images.

This text will translate theory into practice for students and be a source of inspiration and reflection for the experienced practitioner.

Counselling Skills for Becoming a Wiser Practitioner Reviews

A gem of a book: original, fascinating and beautifully crafted. Challenging the conventional wisdom that theory precedes practice, it outlines a range of creative sources that trainees and practitioners can draw on to inform and inspire their work. -- Mick Cooper, Professor of Counselling Psychology
This is an enchanting and memorable book, which speaks directly to anyone who has any kind of involvement in psychotherapeutic work. It consists of a series of brief essays that are personal, passionate and at the same time philosophically informed on central aspects of the experience of therapy. Fresh ways of looking at familiar topics, such as empathy and intersubjectivity, sit alongside illuminating exploration of concepts that are not part of the current therapy landscape: juggling, adventure, bravery. While grounded in a clear stance in relation to the nature of practical knowing, Tony Evans is not promoting a new theory or model of therapy. Instead, he offers a counterpoint to established models and theories, an invitation to look at old ideas in new ways. I warmly recommend his writing to anyone seeking to expand their therapeutic imagination. -- John McLeod, Emeritus Professor of Counselling, University of Abertay

About Tony Evans

Dr Tony Evans is a chartered counselling psychologist with 17 years' experience. He is Principal Lecturer at the University of Roehampton and Programme Convener for BSC Psychology and Counselling and BA Therapeutic Psychology.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction to Practice Wisdom. Part 2: The Streams of Practice Wisdom. 1. Hovering on the Edge. 2. Jumping In. 3. Diving Deeper. 4. Special Equipment. 5. Rip Tides. 6. Practised Wisdom. References.

Additional information

GOR008738688
9781849056076
1849056072
Counselling Skills for Becoming a Wiser Practitioner: Tools, Techniques and Reflections for Building Practice Wisdom by Tony Evans
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
2015-07-21
240
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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