An Introduction to Helping Skills

Providing a full introduction to all the theory and skills needed to work across the range of helping professions, this book introduces students to the three core approaches of counselling, coaching and mentoring, and shows how they work across a variety of settings, including therapy, teaching, social work and nursing.

Readers will be introduced to the three core approaches of counselling, coaching and mentoring, and shown how they work across a variety of settings, including therapy, teaching, social work and nursing.

Part 1 takes readers through the theory, approaches and skills needed for helping work, and includes chapters on:

The differences and similarities of counselling, coaching and mentoring
Foundational and advanced skills for effective helping
Supervision and reflective practice
Ethical helping and working with diversity

Part 2 shows how helping skills look in practice, in a variety of different helping professions. 10 specially-written case studies show you the intricacies of different settings and client groups, including work in schools, hospitals, telephone helplines and probation programs.

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