Re: Geldard Basic Personal Counselling Ebook Download
Yvette Pesnell
This is a comprehensive course text for training new counsellors in basic and more advanced counselling micro-skills which come from a number of therapeutic approaches. The book enables new trainees to learn how to make informed choices about the type of skill to use and how to integrate it within a sequential counselling process. It discusses practical issues including ethics and culture, record-keeping, supervision, and the counselling environment, andoffers explanation of the therapeutic approaches related to particular micro-skills and the ways to best combine them to facilitate change and provide effective practice. This accessible introduction to counselling skills is essential reading for teachers and trainees alike, an excellent course text for training new counsellors from a number of theoretical approaches.
My interest in the area of counsellor and therapist self-care arose for two reasons. First, as a result of the failure for self-care to be addressed sufficiently in any of the counselling and therapy trainings I have attended. Where it was addressed, the only recommended methods were supervision and personal psychotherapy. Second, since my own brush with compassion fatigue twenty years ago, three years after I began to practice as a therapist, it has been important to me to ensure that I pursue de-stressing and healthy diversions to balance work and study.