<p>In this engaging book, Jane Westergaard draws on her extensive knowledge and experience as a helper and educator. Those who are new to counselling, coaching and mentoring are in safe hands here; those who are already familiar with these disciplines will find much to stimulate and provoke fresh thinking.</p>
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- David Britten,
A highly engaging and comprehensive introduction to ‘helping’ and the skills needed to practice in this field. Accessible, practical and effective.
- Amy Hill,
I feel it would have been useful to read this book during my foundation studies, or while I was considering training, as it provides an excellent overview. By far the most useful aspect of the book were the activities advocated within the text, which I found positioned certain issues differently to how I learned about them during my training, and coaxed me into examining things in a new way. I would firmly advocate giving this to people in the formative stages of their journey into a helping profession.
- Ben Scanlan,
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.