books
Rebecca works with Kathryn Geldard authoring practical books on counselling.
Basic Personal Counselling: A Training Manual for Counsellors
Published by Cengage, Basic Personal Counselling (BPC) is the market-leading text addressing units in Counselling and Community Services qualifications – both robust disciplines in the vocational market. The text is an easy-to-read introduction to counselling skills for both professional and volunteer counsellors, and workers in the helping professions. This ninth edition of Basic Personal Counselling includes new content on self-care, the use of technology in counselling, provides a scaffolded and integrated approach to counselling skills and is accompanied by a grid aligning to competencies.
Counselling Children: A Practical Introduction
Published by SAGE, Counselling Children is the definitive guide to the skills, techniques, and concepts used when working with children experiencing emotional challenges. It covers all you need to know about:
The child-counsellor relationship
Practice frameworks for working effectively
Play therapy and the use of different media and activities
Building self-esteem and social skills through the use of worksheets
The concepts of wellbeing and resilience.
New to this edition:
Technology: its influence on children and ways it can be used in counselling
Counselling in a post-pandemic world and the role of remote counselling and ‘telehealth’
More discussion of issues of diversity, difference, intersectionality, implicit bias, and an inclusive practiceUpdated case studies to affirm diversity and represent wider populace
Expanded and updated end of chapter further resources
Updated conclusion (with reflections on the pandemic)
Greater focus on inclusive practice and how SPICC model can be applied across various social/cultural groups.
Counselling Adolescents: The Proactive Approach for Young People
Published by SAGE and now in its fifth edition, this definitive guide to counselling adolescents has introduced thousands of trainees and practitioners to the theory, principles, skills and techniques of proactively counselling this client group. With over 4 hours of online resources, this multi-disciplinary book uses case studies and examples to demonstrate how a diversity of needs requires a diversity of approaches and skills through a variety of settings. It is essential reading for trainees and practitioners in counselling, social work, the allied health professions and education.
What's new to this edition?
Coverage of models of mental health/illness
More on attachment theories
Further explanation and a new preface focused on the proactive approach
A new chapter on mindfulness
More online resources added to companion website including additional videos and links to key ethical guidelines
