ABSTRACT

Developing the ideas of his best-selling textbook Counselling: The Skills of Problem-Solving, Robert Manthei shows how to define and solve problems. Step-by-step he explains how to work in a planned way to enhance the client's self-understanding and increase their ability to find solutions to other problems in the future.
Counselling has proved itself an invaluable resource for counsellors at every stage of their career and for anyone using counselling skills as a part of their work. This new edition is completely revised and introduces:

* a solution-focused model
* new material on: cross-cultural counselling
ethics
self-evaluation
professionalism
advocacy and mediation
stress
supervision

and retains:
* a skills-based approach
* the stage-by-stage model
* examples
* exercises.

chapter 1|17 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|19 pages

Counselling and culture

chapter 4|15 pages

Finding solutions to problems

chapter 6|17 pages

Developing the search for solutions

chapter 7|19 pages

Completing the search for solutions

chapter 8|20 pages

Working as a professional counsellor

chapter 9|22 pages

Related counselling roles and activities

chapter 10|6 pages

Developing competence

chapter |5 pages

References

chapter |4 pages

Answers to exercises