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Learning to Counsel

A guide to the skills and techniques for becoming a counsellor

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Chapter List

1. Foreword
2. Defining Counselling What Is Counselling?; Clarifying Why Counselling Is Not Advice-Giving; Examining Why Counselling Is Not Persuasion; Exploring Why Counselling Is Not Exercising Undue Influence; Identifying The Difference Between Counselling And Other Forms Of Helping; Unde
3. Exploring Essential Counsellor Qualities Elaborating On Essential Counsellor Qualities; Staying In The Client’s Frame Of Reference; Gaining Self-Awareness; Introducing The Johari Window; Exercise; Summary;
4. Helping The Client Feel Safe Paying Attention To Meeting, Greeting And Seating; Issuing An Open Invitation To Talk; Building Trust; Establishing The Ground Rules For Effective Counselling; Ending The First Session; Exercise; Summary;
5. Helping The Client Explore The Problem Primary Level Empathy; Active Listening; Attending; Paraphrasing; Reflecting Feelings; Asking The Right Questions; Summarising; Focusing; Being Concrete To Help The Client Be More Specific; Exercises; Summary;
6. Helping The Client Understand The Problem Challenging And Confronting; Confronting A Client; Using Advanced Level Empathy; Using Immediacy As A Way Of Discussing Your Relationship With The Client; Disclosing Self To Facilitate Communication; Exercises; Summary;
7. Helping The Client Resolve The Problem What Is Problem-Solving?; Goal Setting; Force-Field Analysis; Exercise; Summary;
8. Terminating The Counselling Relationship Preparing For Termination;
9. Getting Support What Is Supervision?; Drawing The Threads Together;