Basic Personal Counselling (10th Edition)

Basic Personal Counselling (BPC) is the market-leading text addressing units in Counselling and Community Services qualifications – both robust disciplines in the vocational market. The text is an easy-to-read introduction to counselling skills for both professional and volunteer counsellors, and workers in the helping professions.

This tenth edition of Basic Personal Counselling includes new content on contemporary approaches and the use of technology in counselling, as well as examples of counselling skills in practice. It encourages you to find ways of testing out your assumptions and discover if there is more that you could do or learn to improve and develop in your chosen career. Journaling, video recording with playback and reflecting team supervision are explained as opportunities to process and monitor your practice, along with easy-to-use templates to record your progress.

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Features:

• Aligned to communication competencies in the Community Services training package for delivery
• Ancillary material includes additional cases and PowerPoints for lesson planning
• Mapped to communication competencies in the Community Services training package for an aligned delivery

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Table of Contents:

Part 1 THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF COUNSELLING

• 1. What is counselling?
• 2. The counselling relationship
• 3. Influence of the counsellor's values
• Part 1 Training group exercises

Part 2 FOUNDATION SKILLS

• 4. Learning foundation skills
• 5. Joining and listening
• 6. Reflection of content (paraphrasing)
• 7. Reflection of feelings
• 8. Reflection of content and feelings
• 9. Use and misuse of questions
• 10. Summarizing
• 11. Matching language and metaphor
• 12. Creating comfortable closure
• Part 2 Training group exercises

Part 3 PROMOTING CHANGE

• 13. Various approaches to counselling
• 14. Working collaboratively
• 15. An integrative approach to helping a person change
• 16. Combining skills to facilitate the change process
• Part 3 Training group exercises

Part 4 ADDITIONAL SKILLS FOR PROMOTING CHANGE

• 17. Normalizing
• 18. Using the 'here and now' experience
• 19. Confrontation
• 20. Challenging unhelpful beliefs
• 21. Externalizing
• 22. Solution-focused counselling skills
• 23. Exploring polarities
• 24. Reframing
• 25. Making decisions
• 26. Facilitating action
• 27. Experiential counselling skills
• 28. Facilitating relaxation
• Part 4 Training group exercises

Part 5 COMMON THEMES IN COUNSELLING

• 29. Addiction
• 30. Distress behaviors
• 31. Sadness, low mood and depression
• 32. Fear, worry and anxiety
• 33. Counselling those experiencing grief and loss
• 34. Crisis intervention
• 35. Responding to suicide intentions
• Part 5 Training group exercises

Part 6 TECHNOLOGY AND COUNSELLING

• 36. Telephone counselling
• 37. Internet counselling
• Part 6 Training group exercises

Part 7 PROFESSIONAL ISSUES

• 38. Becoming a counsellor
• 39. The counselling environment
• 40. Keeping records of counselling sessions
• 41. Cultural diversity considerations
• 42. Confidentiality and other ethical considerations
• 43. Counsellor training and the need for supervision
• 44. Looking after yourself