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- When working with clients, counsellors draw on a number of basic counselling skills. They include: • Attending • Use of Silence • Reflecting and Paraphrasing • Clarifying Questions • Focusing • Rapport Building • Summarising. Click to download your PDF on the Basic Counselling Skills Explained.
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When working with clients, counsellors draw on a number of basic counselling skills. They include: • Attending • Use of Silence • Reflecting and Paraphrasing • Clarifying Questions • Focusing • Rapport Building • Summarising. Click to download your PDF on the Basic Counselling Skills Explained.
- Attending
Attending – Effective counselling skills. Attending is the...
- Silence
Silence in Our Culture and in Counselling. Silence can feel...
- Immediacy
Feltham and Dryden (1993: 88) describe immediacy as ‘the key...
- Summarising
Summarising in Counselling Feltham and Dryden (1993: 186)...
- Attending
Part I Introduction. Who are counsellors and helpers? 2 What are basic counselling skills? 3 Helpers and helpees as diverse persons. 4 What you bring to counselling and helping. 5 The helping relationship. 6 The helping process. Part II Specific counselling skills. 7 Understanding the internal frame of reference. 8 Showing attention and interest.
counselor. Identify the goals that you have in life, as well make new goals that you want to achieve. Learn new behaviors or responses to situations that can help you better achieve your goals.
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- How to Improve Your Counseling Skills
- Assessing Counseling Skills: A Scale
- 3 Books to Foster Your Counseling Skills
- Tools from Positivepsychology.Com
Mental health professionals need to become their own best counselors; if therapists truly believe in their approach when applied to clients, it should also help them“lead happier and more fulfilled lives” (Nelson-Jones, 2014, p. 483). Trainees may find it helpful to consider undergoing therapy themselves. The experience will benefit their personal ...
Therapists, particularly students and trainees, should regularly reflect on their skill set and recognize opportunities for development and growth. While there are limited instruments to assess the skills of mental health professionals directly, the following resources are helpful for therapists or supervisors: 1. Skill Evaluation Form – Kent State...
While there are many books available on counseling skills, the following are three of our favorites.
We have many tools that support the counseling and therapy process, including worksheets that help improve communication and empathy. Why not try out the following free worksheets? 1. From My Way – No, My Way to OUR Way This worksheethelps pairs explore their conflicting approaches or points of view and co-create a shared norm or solution to a prob...
Competent use of counselling skills provides the ability to: Recognise when someone needs to talk. Respond using appropriate skills to facilitate a safe listening space. Refer by sensitively signposting or referring when someone needs further help or assistance.
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Use a range of counselling skills effectively, for example: • listening – to verbal and non-verbal communication • paraphrasing – to communicate attention and understanding of content
The Top Ten Basic Counseling Skills. -- Kevin J. Drab, M.Ed., M.A., LPC, CAC Diplomate. Research is increasingly finding that the type of therapy used is not a important to outcomes as are specific counselor behaviors such as (1) Enthusiasm, (2) Confidence, (3) Belief in the patient’s ability to change. Although there is nothing which will ...
