Counselling Skills In Context

Counselling Skills in Context

SALLY ALDRIDGE SALLY RIGBY, Editors

Hodder & Stoughton

COUNSELLING

IN CONTEXT
EDITED BY

SKILLS

SALLY ALDRIDGE AND SALLY RIGBY

The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) is the UK’s largest counselling and psychotherapy organisation; producing journals and publications, maintaining a training film and video library, andpublishing directories of counsellors, counselling agencies and counselling training. Check the BACP Web-site at www.counselling.co.uk or e-mail: bacp@bacp.co.uk for further information.

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Contents

Acknowledgements Biographies Introduction Section One Chapter 1: Ethics and process by Anne Stokes Chapter 2: Life stages by Jan Jeffery Chapter 3: Theoretical perspectives by Sheila Trahar Chapter 4: Values, beliefs and attitudes by Peter Kent Section Two Chapter 5: Introduction to counsellingskills by Jean Bayliss Chapter 6: Further counselling skills by Jean Bayliss Section Three Chapter 7: Settings by Anne Stokes Chapter 8: Bullying and harassment by Sally Aldridge Chapter 9: Mentoring by Sally Rigby Index

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Biographies

Sally Aldridge is now in her fourth career as Head of Accreditationat the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), a post she took up in 1999. She began work as a teacher of African history in Zambia and returned to the UK to train as a counsellor. Sally then spent a period working as a counsellor and Director of Student Services at Staffordshire University, and taught counselling skills and counsellor training courses at the University ofKeele. At Staffordshire she set up the University Harassment and Bullying Network. She is an accredited counsellor and Fellow of BACP Jean Bayliss is a practising counsellor and trainer, with a special interest in assessment of counsellors and of counsellor training. In this capacity, she works as advisor and consultant to several awarding bodies and institutions. Her original postgraduate diplomagrew from a concern about the need for student and staff counselling in further education, where she was a head of department. Since then, she has gained an MA in Counselling and is preparing her doctorate. She has published work on loss and grief and on counselling theory (National Extension College); contributed to the recently published Why is it so difficult to die? (Quay Books), and wrote the...