Basic Counselling Skills, a helpers manual is well set out and very easy to read. The author, Richard Nelson Jones, a British and Australian citizen is a leading international author whose books have been used to help train counsellors worldwide.
This book is targeted to those who use counselling as part of their professional role rather than those who are accredited counsellors. This book offers basic or fundamental counselling skills - exactly as described in the title. The book would be most beneficial to those in the health and helping professions with no formal counselling training or those who wish to revise their basic counselling skills. From this perspective the content of this book is both similar and suited to any introduction to counselling skills workshop or undergraduate nursing program
De Shazers map provides therapists with a simple decision tree that will help clients get to where they are supposed to go, namely to solutions to life's painful problems. This book will be helpful not only to brief therapists but also to every professional who is interested in doing therapy in a transparent, brief and effective manner. More info
Fostering Attachments combines the experience and wisdom of parents and carers with that of professionals to provide support and practical guidance for foster and adoptive parents looking after children with insecure attachment relationships. It gives an overview of attachment theory and a step-by-step model of parenting which provides the reader with a tried-and-tested framework for developing resilience and emotional growth. More info
The trend in 'brain-based education' has been growing of late, yet much debate exists about what characterises its parameters, goals and standards. Based on an exhaustive review of the literature, as well as interviews with more than twenty leaders in the field from six different countries, this book sets out to define the field as well as offer teachers models for interpreting new data and implementing effective classroom strategies. More info
