A Practical Guide to Counselling

Talk, listen, support and understand better. Develop a hands-on understanding of how counselling works and how it can help people, viewing the subject from both a client's and a trainee counsellor's perspective. Learn how to listen more attentively and be a better communicator, be more empathetic with a heightened perception of others, and improve your relationships with both those around you and yourself. Providing expert insights, real-life case studies and useful skills, this Practical Guide offers an invaluable guide to anyone interested in learning more about counselling. AUTHOR: Dr Alistair Ross is a BACP accredited counsellor and supervisor, Chair of the BACP's Professional Ethics and Quality Standards Committee, and a director of studies in Psychodynamic Studies and Psychology at the University of Oxford. Since 2002 he has also led the MA in Psychodynamic Counselling at the University of Birmingham.

Dr Alistair Ross initially trained as a Baptist Minister and worked in South London, Kent and Birmingham. He subsequently did an experiential therapeutic training at Claybury Psychiatric Hospital in Essex and worked as a pastoral counsellor and pastoral theologian. Further training as a psychodynamic counsellor and supervisor followed and since 2002 he has led the MA in Psychodynamic Counselling at the University of Birmingham. He is a BACP accredited counsellor and supervisor, Chair of BACP's Professional Ethics and Quality Standards Committee and a lecturer at Oxford University.

A Practical Guide to a broad and extremely vital psychological speciality A Practical Guide to Counselling provides you with a hands-on understanding of how counselling works and how it can help people. Alastair Ross offers an invaluable guide to anyone interested in learning more about how counselling works - with expert advice on everything from the ethics of counselling to how to listen attentively and establish a relationship, You'll view things from both a client's and a trainee counsellor's point of view, and will gain both a theoretical and practical grounding in the subject, building the skills to talk and listen to others, as well as determining whether counselling is something you'd like to pursue further.

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