She has been a counselling trainer and tutor with students from many different backgrounds, as well as having extensive experience as a therapist and supervisor.

It's easy to find what you're looking for, would definitely recommend it if you're interested in counselling or studying it. Building rapport with clients in counselling is important, whatever model of counselling the counsellor is working with. TA from Then To Now is a series of books based on Transaction Analysis (TA) training workbooks developed by Julie Hay over several years. To be awarded the Level 3 Award in Counselling Skills and Theory, learners are required to successfully complete 4 mandatory units.The issue of personal therapy in the training of counsellors and counselling psychologists has long been debated and is still being discussed. The listener showed a non-judgmental attitude, was patient and only asked questions to clarify their understanding. Understand the ways in which neuroscience helps us understand the beneficial effects of counselling and psychotherapy with the regular references throughout the book.

Although some people believe that trainees ’ processing of personal issues helps increase their self-understanding, they do not consider it mandatory. Through active listening, rapport is built, trust forms and the speaker feels heard and understood by the counsellor or listener. Others argue that personal therapy is an integral part of training for future therapists revealing the characters and personalities of those who are fit or unfit to practice this profession. In most European countries a certain number of hours of personal therapy are mandatory to qualify for admission to the profession.It was nicely laid out, the information was clear and concise, i liked the colour coordinated layout, and it gives precise explanations for all the different modalitys that you will discuss in Levels 3 and 4. John McLeod is Emeritus Professor of Counselling at Abertay University Dundee, and Visiting Professor at the Institute for Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy in Dublin, Ireland. Consequently, the second passenger spoke about a lot of personal issues to a stranger on a train because the first passenger knew ‘the art of listening’. It was not on my reading list for college, but im very glad i bought it because i have gained more information from it than any other book i bought from my reading list. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Trust this bestselling resource to provide you with the clearest overview of the major approaches in counselling. This includes the counsellor listening to silences as well as words, sitting with them and recognising that the silences may facilitate the counselling process. Easy to read, clear and concise, this full colour updated edition will take you from learning to application with a variety of group tasks and case studies to explore and evaluate.

At the same time, she hopes that reading what she has written will prompt readers to go back to some of the original publications rather than relying only on her interpretation of what another author has written.

Access the eBook offline on any device – in school, at home or on the move – with the Boost eBooks app (available on Android and iOS). It's almost like a work book and you'll find that there are sections to the book directly relevant to units within your level 2/3. This series of books is Julie’s way of contributing to the spread of TA knowledge, especially to those who lack access to TA books and journals. It will fast become your indispensible guide to the nature of counselling across the many specialisations. Using immediacy means that the therapist reveals how they themselves are feeling in response to the client.Now in full colour to bring this fascinating and complex subject to life, this fully updated new edition outlines the major approaches, how they interrelate and how you can integrate them into practice. Julie uses her extensive knowledge and experience to interpret the numerous ideas, frameworks, structures and developments of TA theory, from its Bernian roots to the present day, interspersing this with her own original ideas, reviews and critiques. We publish textbooks, revision guides, workbooks and more for pupils aged 11–19+ who are studying for GCSEs, A-levels and many other qualifications. This is achieved by the helper/counsellor by both repeating and feeding a shorter version of their story back to the client.