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Counselling Skills in Everyday Life

  • First basic, userfriendly book to demonstrate how counselling skills can be learned and used in everyday life
    Plenty of common examples, exercises, scenarios, tips
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. What are counselling skills?

    • Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard
    Pages 1-23
  3. Valuing the person

    • Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard
    Pages 24-46
  4. Inviting a person to talk

    • Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard
    Pages 47-67
  5. Skills to help the person continue talking

    • Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard
    Pages 68-85
  6. Helping the person to feel better

    • Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard
    Pages 86-101
  7. Focusing on the central problem

    • Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard
    Pages 102-125
  8. Exploring possible solutions

    • Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard
    Pages 126-140
  9. Helping people to deal with everyday problems

    • Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard
    Pages 141-173
  10. Managing the ongoing relationship

    • Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard
    Pages 174-185
  11. Attending to your own needs

    • Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard
    Pages 186-202
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 203-208

About this book

Most of us find ourselves listening to other people's problems at some time or another - either our friends' or, in the course of our work, patients, pupils, clients, colleagues. This book, written clearly in user friendly language, takes the reader step by step through a range of skills to help them become a better listener, communicator and helper in their everyday lives, progressing from inviting the person to talk to ending a helping conversation.

Using plenty of examples, tips, exercises and sample conversations, the authors show how the skills described can be easily learned and can fit comfortably into everyday life.

This book is essential reading for everyone interested in improving their communication and helping skills as well as those students taking introductory courses in counselling and counselling skills.

KATHERYN GELDARD is a Child and Family Therapist and a visiting lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

DAVID GELDARD is a Counselling Psychologist. Together they are the authors of several books on counselling. They jointly manage a counselling practice where they specialise in working with children, adolescents, and their families. They also run training programmes for helping professionals who wish to enhance their counselling skills.

About the authors

KATHRYN GELDARD is a Child and Family Therapist and a visiting lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

DAVID GELDARD is a Counselling Psychologist. They jointly manage a counselling practice where they specialise in working with children, adolescents and their families. They also run training programmes for helping professionals who wish to enhance their counselling skills.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Counselling Skills in Everyday Life

  • Authors: Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-9761-6

  • Publisher: Red Globe Press London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2003

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 208

  • Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave

  • Topics: Clinical Psychology