Effective Counseling Skills

Description, reason for recommending:
new, practical, reader-friendly, skill-focused, comprehensive, numerous examples given, conversational style, detailed index and Table of Contents

The style of the manual is conversational with numerous examples of the wording of therapeutic statements. Major topic areas include an explanation of the client's personal history, how to begin and deepen the counseling process, suicide prevention, helping the client learn healthy ways of relating, resolving conflict, skills for healing grief, working with specific issues in couples counseling, and more.