Books by Richard Nelson-Jones

This practical bestseller from leading expert Richard Nelson-Jones introduces the essential counselling skills for the helping professions. Now in its fourth edition, it guides trainees through the key skills for helping work across a range of settings, such as counselling, nursing, social work, youth work, education and many more.

An introduction to the major theoretical approaches in counselling and psychotherapy. It includes two chapters on mindfulness and positive therapy, as well as additional content on ethics, and new developments in each approach, including the research and references.

This sixth edition of Richard Nelson-Jones' bestselling book is a step-by-step guide to using counselling and helping skills with confidence and proficiency. The author's three-stage model of counselling is designed to facilitate developing lifeskills in clients and to help them to change how they feel, think, communicate and act.

This is a new edition of a bestselling introductory counselling textbook. Richard Nelson-Jones is an established and much loved author who's books have helped to train thousands of counsellors and therapists.

Fourth edition of bestselling counselling skills book - easy to read, highly practical introductory content, for counselling and health and social care market

Martin Noth argued that in the books of Joshua-Kings could be seen the work of a single, purposeful author or historian-a hypothesis which, although close to becoming one of those rare ''assured results of critical scholarship'', has recently encountered criticism. Nelson observes that Noth''s historian has a ''disturbing tendency to fall apart in the hands of those who work with him''. In this comprehensive study of the question, he attempts to put on a solid critical foundation the increasingly popular theory that the Deutoronomistic History is a product of a two-stage literary process.

Provides an introduction to the skills needed to be an effective life coach, and incorporates a range of practical activities for coaches to use to help their clients develop self-coaching skills. This book presents a four stage life coaching model based around the core concepts of relating, understanding, changing and client self-coaching.

This optimistic and practical book explores what makes a happy relationship and how to develop your skills in seven key areas: becoming more outgoing, listening better, communicating assertively and managing anger, showing you care, sharing intimacy, enjoying sex together and managing problems.

Essential Counselling and Therapy Skills

Describes a different approach to psychotherapy and self-development, based on an understanding of what it means to be "fully human". This book synthesises ideas from the cognitive and humanistic domains of psychotherapy and the religious worlds of Buddhism and Christianity.

Shows how happiness and professional success can be achieved through effective personal decision-making. This book is suitable for those in management situations - at various levels - and those who wish to reap the personal benefits of clear thinking.

A guide to using one's mind skillfully and creatively which focuses on how to manage oneself rather than other people. It covers thinking skills such as setting realistic goals, visualizing problems, making accurate decisions, and preventing and managing crises. It also includes fifty exercises.