Counselling Skills in Action: (Counselling in Action Series)

To access the exclusive SAGE Videos, please see the code and instructions on the inside front cover of your textbook. If you have purchased the eBook from Amazon or another online retailer, please visit the book′s online resource site to contact SAGE, and we will assist further.  Now in its 4th edition, this bestselling book introduces you to the core counselling and psychotherapy skills you will need for effective therapeutic practice. With an online resource site featuring over 30 videos, you will be taken step-by-step through the skills and strategies needed at each stage of the therapy process.

Table of Contents:
Learning Skills in Counselling and Psychotherapy Overview of the Skills-Based Model Building Your Foundations The Beginning Stage: Focusing and Connection The Middle Stage: Exploring and Deepening The Ending Stage: Reflection and Transition Working in Practice: Common Issues, Competency and Self-Care Case Study Success in Practice: Using Your Learning

About the Author :
Megan R Stafford is a UKCP registered psychotherapist in private practice, a Lecturer at the University of Roehampton, and a Module Leader at Metanoia Institute.  She has worked for many years as a researcher, including work in mental health and wellbeing developing guidelines for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) at the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, and most recently evaluating humanistic therapy for young people at the University of Roehampton.  Megan integrates a developmental, relational and transpersonal approach in her practice, to consider working therapeutically with her clients’ developmental traumas, current relational difficulties and future aspirations. She lives in West London, where she is about to embark on a loving renovation of her flat and perfecting her pastry skills, now that she has a little more time on her hands Tim Bond is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Bristol and Visiting Professor to the University of Malta. He has a longstanding commitment to researching and writing about professional ethics for the talking therapies and promoting mental well-being. He is currently a consultant to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy on professional ethics and standards, a member of the Ethics Committee for the British Psychological Society and the Executive Council of the International Association for Counselling. He is a registered member of BACP and provides counselling supervision and training workshops.

Review :
A wonderfully clear, focused, and practical guide to counselling skills—illustrated, throughout, with dialogues and case descriptions. Informed and informative, this book will be an excellent companion for any trainees taking the first steps in counselling and psychotherapeutic work. For most trainee counsellors and psychotherapists and, indeed, qualified and experienced practitioners too, there is a small number of ‘go to’ books that shout loudly above the noise.  Those books that not only inform and educate, but transcend to define practice itself.  Counselling Skills in Action, now presented here in its Fourth Edition, is one of those texts.  Megan Stafford and Tim Bond have crafted a piece of work that not only remains vital in today’s contemporary practice landscape, but continues to push boundaries and creates space for innovation.  A very welcome addition to my reading list indeed.