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

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This fifth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect changes in the role and practice of counselling in the 21st century. Enhanced Learning Credits are designed to promote lifelong learning amongst members of the Armed Forces and ex-service personnel. It is designed as a taster to see if counselling is an area you may wish to continue with or as a personal journey of growth.

The course is assessed through practical tasks within lessons and learners will be encouraged to complete weekly reflective journal entries. This is not a 'how to help' manual; rather it is a questioning, curious, explorative and challenging companion.

Pete Sanders, Paula J Williams and Andy Rogers position counselling in contemporary society and render the theory, practice and origins of counselling understandable to all. It explains in clear language what counselling is, the theories on which it is based, how it works and how it is positioned in relation to contemporary debates about culture, politics, language, race and power.

As the author is keen to explain, there are more people than counsellors who use counselling skills and this book would be perfect for them also.

He has written, co-written and edited a number of books, chapters and papers on many aspects of counselling, psychotherapy and mental health. Please visit your branch after you receive contact from us that your items are available to collect. Fees quoted online and in our prospectuses are for the current academic year only, and are subject to change – two and three-year courses will have fees to pay again in subsequent years. 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. My main grievance with Sanders’ book was the layout; panels of quotes and lyrics to illustrate his points dotted across the pages really broke up the flow of the text.

Since First Steps in Counselling was first published, every new edition has been a core textbook on counselling and counselling skills training courses. For 98% of employers, the reforms mean that employing an apprentice will be better value for money than ever before. He has a particular interest in the demedicalisation of distress and is a trustee of the Soteria Network UK.Setting the standard for approachable entry-level books, the 4th revised edition provides an absolutely up-to-date text for today's students, covering theory, personal development and building helping skills.