Basic Personal Counselling is an easy-to-read introduction to counselling skills for both professional and volunteer counsellors and workers in the helping professions. Reflecting current best practice, this Australian text:

• Introduces counselling skills in a logical sequence and provides practical examples of the skills in action
• Show how combining counselling skills using an integrative approach can produce change
• Discusses the processes of change involved in counselling
• Provides approaches for counselling people with specific problems such as anger, depression, grief, or suicidal ideation
• Discusses professional issues including: confidentiality: ethics: record-keeping: arrangement of a counselling room: the need to care for yourself and the importance and use of supervision