ABSTRACT

Basic Counselling Skills for Teachers provides teachers and school staff with an accessible guide, and easy-to-apply skills, to providing counselling to students in a school setting. It looks at what counselling is and what it is not, how to recognise that a student may need counselling, creating the right environment, and maintaining confidentiality.

Throughout the book, Tim Dansie provides case studies and strategies for teachers that will help them to encourage students to open up and talk whilst having a model to follow outlining a Solution-Focused Counselling approach. It includes easy-to-understand chapters on counselling for:

  • grief
  • bullying
  • anger
  • anxiety
  • depression
  • friendships
  • career guidance
  • technology addiction.

Concise and practical, this book is essential reading for teachers who want to develop their counselling skills and be able to confidently support students in many of the challenges they face on their journey through school.

chapter 1|3 pages

Why are teachers good counsellors?

chapter 2|2 pages

Why we teach problem-solving skills

chapter 3|29 pages

Counselling for teachers

chapter 4|12 pages

The Solution-Focused Counselling Model

chapter 5|5 pages

Counselling techniques

chapter 6|13 pages

Counselling for grief

chapter 7|4 pages

Counselling to develop friendships

chapter 8|4 pages

Counselling for career guidance

chapter 10|7 pages

Counselling for bullying

chapter 11|3 pages

Counselling for anger

chapter 12|8 pages

Counselling for anxiety

chapter 13|5 pages

Counselling for depression

chapter 14|2 pages

Looking after yourself when counselling