Books in the Professional Skills for Counsellors Series series

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.

Clearly written and highly accessible, this book is an indispensable addition to the toolkit of those either training to be, or practising in the counselling and psychotherapeutic professions

Clearly written and highly accessible, this book is an indispensable addition to the toolkit of those either training to be, or practising in the counselling and psychotherapeutic professions

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 text offers guidelines on aspects of knowledge, skill and management expertise required by counselling services. The authors examine the implications of funding, budgeting, staffing issues, location, and furnishing of premises on daily working routines.

Counsellors and mental health workers often encounter situations where clients' medical or psychiatric conditions - and their treatment - affect the assessment of, or work with, clients. This comprehensive overview highlights key concerns and offers practical advice for judging when a situation may be beyond the worker's skills.

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.

Introduces counselors to the concept of the life course as a multidimensional and multidisciplinary framework for thinking about clients' lives within and beyond the counseling setting. This book shows how the concept of the life course can be used as a framework for considering the commonalities between different life stages.

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

Offers an introduction to the legal issues in relation to counselling and psychotherapy in the UK. This work provides coverage of the key developments in the law that have had major impact on therapists' practice with regard to data protection and the management of confidentiality.

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.

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.

Examines the complex and varied issues which can arise out of long-term counselling, with an emphasis throughout on skilled, professional and ethical practice. This book considers working parameters and issues of definition, setting and orientation.

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

The goal of this book is to facilitate better communication between school counsellors and other mental-health professionals by enchancing counsellors' understanding of diagnostic codes and their use. W Paul Jones presents an overview of the basic ideas and terminology used in diagnosis, and examines specific conditions that school counsellors are likely to encounter.

Sets out practical guidelines, backed up by examples and a theoretical base, for the management of difficult, disturbed or disturbing clients. This book concentrates on the difficulties of the transaction between practitioner and client in their respective social contexts.

Provides guidelines and help for counsellors wishing to work in and with groups. The book: covers the stages from setting up a group, developing and maintaining it and bringing it to and appropriate end; an integrates multicultural perspectives on groups and group-work.

This guide to the practical issues surrounding the referral of clients and the termination of counselling stresses the need to be aware of limits of competency, legal issues and ethics, and to recognize the value of local resources.

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.

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.