First Steps in Counselling: A Students' Companion for Basic Introductory Courses

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The authors have that rare gift of being able to make the complicated straightforward to understand, whilst maintaining its impact and instruction. With over 100, 000 copies sold, First Steps in Counselling remains the text of choice for both students and tutors participating in introductory courses. A typical week will comprise learning core communication skills, practising a variety of strategies and learning basic communication and active listening skills. Intended as a support for tutors and a companion for course participants, the text emphasises personal development and good practice, and can be used with confidence as a focus for training or a supplement to it. This textbook is the second edition of the follow-on to First Steps in Counselling – the first edition has been a bestseller every year for twelve years.

Your personal information will be processed in line with our privacy notice available on our policy page. Progression to level 2 counselling skills course, which is required for further progression towards becoming a counsellor. This is not a ‘how to help’ manual; rather it is a questioning, curious, explorative and challenging companion. First Steps offers a comprehensive and robust guide to new and experienced counselling- informed helpers and trainers at all levels of the UK counselling landscape.

It's also my first book on the topic as I am starting my training next month and I will definitely refer back to it if needed. Most books about training focus on the training; this book is about you, the trainee and student, and your needs.

Enhanced Learning Credits are designed to promote lifelong learning amongst members of the Armed Forces and ex-service personnel. They also helpfully chart contemporary challenges, distinguishing professional, social and political features, including the recent tensions in the counselling and psychotherapy professions between medical and psychosocial, non-pathologising interpretations of mental health.the qualification you wish to study isn’t on the approved list of level 3 qualifications the College can run for free. We will contact you when this course becomes available, we would also love to keep you informed of other/similar courses you may be interested in. This fifth edition retains the vision and heart of the original book, thoughtfully restructured, developed and thoroughly updated. For 98% of employers, the reforms mean that employing an apprentice will be better value for money than ever before.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. This book has helped me alot through my level 1 counselling and have no doubt I will keep using it during my next course.

If you are considering a course like me, want to learn about counselling skills as a helper or want an up to date look at current issues around counselling, then I wholeheartedly recommend you purchase this book. That First Steps in Counselling is now in its fifth edition is a testimony to the critical eye cast by its authors as they observe our fast-changing world. All course materials will be uploaded weekly on Microsoft Teams and the team will support your development of the use of technology. Wished i'd bought this at the start of my Counselling training, easy to read and so full of knowledge of all the theorys.