Practical counselling skills : an integrative approach / Kathryn Geldard and David Geldard

Contents
Part I Counselling - an overview
1 What is Counselling?
2 The Counselling Relationship

Part II Basic principles and skills
3 Learning the necessary skills
4 Joining and listening
5 Paraphrasing of content
6 Reflection of feelings
7 Paraphrasing content and reflection of feelings
8 Use and abuse of questions
9 Summarising
10 Creating comfortable closure

Part III Promoting change through the use of an integrative approach
11 An integrative approach to helping people change
12 Combining skills to facilitate the change process

Part IV Additional skills for promoting change
13 Confrontation
14 Normalising
15 Reframing
16 Challenging self-destructive beliefs
17 Exploring polarities
18 Enabling the client to make use of their strengths
19 Using the 'here and now' experience
20 Exploring options
21 Facilitating action

Part V Practical, professional and ethical issues

22 The counselling environment
23 Keeping records of counselling sessions
24 Cultural Issues
25 Influence of the Counsellor's values and beliefs
26 Confidentiality and other ethical issues
27 The need for supervision
28 Looking after yourself

Part VI Practice examples for students
29 Practice example for students

References
Index