Counselling skills
3 July 2008
COUNSELLING
Description:
Group Communication Pitfalls: Overcoming Barriers to an Effective Group Experience treats groups and the work involved in grouping as useful tools humans have developed for responding to pressures or demands faced by group members. This book assumes an orientation that expects and detects group pitfalls as they arise, providing students with the foundation for overcoming barriers to effective group experiences. By assuming this orientation, authors John O. Burtis and Paul D. Turman offer readers a map of the group pitfall terrain and demonstrate how people working well together can use the struggle against such pitfalls to improve their groups.
Key Features
- Provides students with a unifying theoretical framework and pedagogical orientation, which organizes a very broad range of research findings into tight and useful classifications
- Takes a comprehensive approach that frames current small group communication literature through a theoretical lens provided by Breakdown-Conducive Group Theory
- Reviews research findings from a variety of methodological perspectives and directly describes applications of the concepts discussed across each chapter
- Offers extensive skills enhancing material to help students apply the theoretically based concepts discussed in the book
While other texts cover cursory material on group pitfalls and miscommunication, it is the primary focus of this text and gives students practical recommendations to correct those pitfalls. Group Communication Pitfalls is an excellent textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on small group communication such as Advanced Group Communication, Group Dynamics, and Group Processes. It can also be used as a supplemental text in courses that focus on group interaction.
Counselling skills
Counselling skills, such as active listening and responding appropriately, are important for effective communication in any industry.
Being able to provide counselling and guidance is a valuable asset for any career that involves helping others to improve the quality of their lives.
This introductory course provides a clear and accessible insight into the many skills involved, so students can find out exactly what helping others entails and what personal qualities are needed - either to develop counselling skills for use in a current job or to start a career in counselling, advice or guidance.
Five carefully structured units take you through each stage of the counselling process from defining what counselling is, to identifying needs, supporting clients and helping them set and review their goals.
Each unit contains a range of writing, listening and observational activities to help you develop your skills.
Introducing Counselling Skills
Helps you
- Build up skills ideal for many people-related jobs
- Go on to further training in Counselling
Topics include
- Personal qualities needed to use counselling skills
- Active listening and observation skills
- The ’skilled helper’ model
- Questioning and responding skills
- Goals and target setting
- Brighten Up The Counseling Center!
- Recover from the Storm Within
- Kool Koala Bears Climbing the Tree of Success
Leave a reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
