Bücher der Reihe Professional Skills for Counsellors Series

The author provides specific guidelines that can pave the way to comprehensive home-school partnerships.

Outlines the specific practical and technical skills, strategies and knowledge counsellors must have in order to undertake time-limited counselling. Following an examination of the client's induction into counselling, this book describes the appropriate models for different clients and problems.

This guide clarifies why personal and professional development is important for therapists. It describes how therapists can identify and fill gaps in their training, encourages therapists to expand their skills into new areas and assesses the range, value and availability of training courses.

Explores the conflicts of running a business that needs to be ethical and responsive to clients' needs - but at the same time has to be successful and profitable. This book provides advice on business, tax, VAT and accounting with examples of budgets to illustrate how to make business perform.

This book is for school counsellors, teachers and administrators who have to deal with the escalating violence in today's schools.

Offers an overview of the tasks and the processes of learning and writing required on counselling training courses and in the practice of counselling. This book covers the period of training, from choosing a course to the early stages of professional practice. It also discusses learning skills, methods and approaches.

Offers a guide to the nature of counselling contracts, why they are needed and how they are made. This book takes account of the BACP ethical framework and covers the legal aspects of contracting, and how to make contracts with trainees. It is intended for trainees and practitioners in counselling and psychotherapy.

Presenting contrasting views of the relationship between the counsellor or therapist and the client, as held by practitioners from diverse theoretical orientations, this book clarifies and considers the elements of the counselling relationship which have most bearing on therapeutic practice. The strengths of each position are highlighted in terms of understanding, theory and skills.

This work provides guidelines on the assessment, monitoring and evaluation of clients and the help they receive. Not adhering to specific schools of counselling, the work includes advice on meeting the client, through monitoring the therapeutic process to terminating counselling.

Most counsellors use the telephone to interact with clients to some degree. This volume explores the skills needed to carry out effective telephone counselling - such as welcoming and establishing a relationship with the client, listening and responding, and understanding silences.