Counselling Skills for Social Work

"Counselling Skills for Social Work" focuses on eight principal therapeutic models and each of these is explored to illustrate how the underlying theory can be applied to professional practice. It then identifies the key skills which can be employed for the most effective social work intervention. Key features of the book include: a practical skills-based approach; a range of case-studies drawn from a variety of 'real-life' settings; satisfies the benchmark guidelines structuring the new social work degree; and end-of-chapter reflective questions, tips for practice and tables summarizing the key theoretical concepts and their applications. This is an essential guide to improving communication skills and intervention with service-users.