How to Survive Counsellor Training: An A-Z Guide

Author(s) : Rowan Bayne

How to Survive Counsellor Training: An A-Z Guide

Book Details

  • Publisher : Palgrave
  • Published : 2010
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 208
  • Category :
    Counselling
  • Catalogue No : 32363
  • ISBN 13 : 9780230217126
  • ISBN 10 : 0230217125
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This A-Z guide tackles the most daunting issues that counsellors face on the journey to becoming qualified. From choosing a course to writing a report, the book explains topics in bite-sized chunks, drawing on the authors own experiences and the literature. This is a valuable reference tool for counsellors throughout their training and beyond. Training to be a counsellor can be an intense and demanding experience, full of stresses and anxieties. It can also be positive and fulfilling, This easy-to-use guide can help you make the most of your training so that you survive - and, importantly, enjoy - your course. From choosing a course to writing a report, the book examines the biggest and passively most daunting issues you will face on the way to becoming qualified. The information is presented in easily digestible, bite-size chunks, so that you can dip in and out of the text as your training programme -- and your understanding -- progresses. Drawing on the authors extensive teaching experience and the wider literature, How to Survive Counsellor Training: * Provides a realistic and reassuring advice at every stage, in order to reduce anxiety and allow you to grow in confidence * Informs your choices and suggests possible actions and strategies * Explains the rationale behind some aspects of training, offering hints about how to get the most out of the experience * Helps and encourages you to take care of yourself and pay attention to your own personal development * Warns you about some of the challenges you might face and suggests strategies for coping with them. Clearly structured and a pleasure to read and use, this text is aimed at prospective and beginning trainees and will prove a practical and stimulating reference for counsellors throughout their training and beyond.

About the Author(s)

Rowan Bayne is Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Counselling at the University of East London. His main expertise is in applied personality theory, counselling and counsellor training. He has published 18 books and has run courses on selection interviewing, personality differences and counselling for several major organisations such as the BBC, British Rail, the City of London and Warwick University.

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