ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a case for broadening counselling training through demystifying and disseminating the use of counselling skills to a much wider group of people than has previously been envisaged by those involved in the professional practice of counselling. Use of counselling skills is seen as both a generic helping skill and as a means of assisting professional and organizational growth. The chapter also seeks to demonstrate the fundamental changes which are taking place in vocational training in Britain and the growing demand for counselling in industry and commerce. Those who are involved in the professional practice of counselling use the basic skills of counselling alongside a range of specific therapeutic approaches. The counselling skills movement owes most to the work of Carl Rogers, who describes the qualities of empathy, genuineness, and warmth as essential to the client-centred counselling relationship and which enhance all forms of helping.
