Basic personal counselling
Subtitle: a training manual for counsellors
By: David Geldard and Kathryn Geldard
Contributors: Geldard, Kathryn
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Pearson Education Australia
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Frenchs Forest, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780733970016
Subjects: Counseling; Handbooks, manuals
Description: A comprehensive, easy-to-read introduction to personal counselling, written for professional and volunteer counsellors, and those who train them.
Notes: Includes index.

Previous edition: Sydney : Prentice Hall, 2001.
Table of contents: title: 1. What is counselling?; title: 2. The counselling relationship; title: 3. Learning the necessary skills; title: 4. Joining and listening; title: 5. Reflection of content (paraphrasing); title: 6. Reflection of feelings; title: 7. Reflection of content and feelings; title: 8. Use and abuse of content; title: 9. Summarising; title: 10. Matching the client's language; title: 11. Creating comfortable closure; title: 12. Various approaches to counselling; title: 13. An integrative approach to helping people change; title: 14. Combining skills to facilitate the change process; title: 15. Normalising; title: 16. Using the 'here and now' experience; title: 17. Confrontation; title: 18. Challenging self-destructive beliefs; title: 19. Externalising; title: 20. Solution-focused counselling skills; title: 21. Exploring polarities; title: 22. Reframing; title: 23. Exploring options; title: 24. facilitating action; title: 25. Counselling the angry client; title: 26. Counselling the depressed client; title: 27. Grief and loss counselling; title: 28. Counselling the suicidal client; title: 29. Teaching clients to relax; title: 30. Telephone counselling; title: 31. Crisis intervention; title: 32. The counselling environment; title: 33. Keeping records of counselling sessions; title: 34. Cultural issues; title: 35. Influence of the counsellor's values and beliefs; title: 36. Confidentiality and other ethical issues; title: 37. The need for supervision; title: 38. Looking after yourself.