This counselling skills book will equip you with the necessary knowledge, skills and qualities to work with people in a range of different roles and settings. It defines counselling skills and introduces key skills including: listening and responding skills, empathy and different models, tools and techniques. Further chapters explore the importance of skills practice and self-awareness; ethics, boundaries and confidentiality; working remotely; working with difference and diversity, and different professional roles. Throughout, case studies show you how these skills can make a difference in practice, while exercises, including a student journal feature, help you reflect on your own attitudes to enhance your reflective practice. This book is an accessible guide to the BACP counselling skills competence framework for trainee counsellors and those using counselling skills as part of another professional role.

This counselling skills book will equip you with the necessary knowledge, skills and qualities to work with people in a range of different roles and settings. It defines counselling skills and introduces key skills including: listening and responding skills, empathy and different models, tools and techniques. Further chapters explore the importance of skills practice and self-awareness; ethics, boundaries and confidentiality; working remotely; working with difference and diversity, and different professional roles. Throughout, case studies show you how these skills can make a difference in practice, while exercises, including a student journal feature, help you reflect on your own attitudes to enhance your reflective practice. This book is an accessible guide to the BACP counselling skills competence framework for trainee counsellors and those using counselling skills as part of another professional role.

The complete first season of the popular US sitcom. In 'Love and Marriage' Will refuses to give his blessing when Grace accepts her boyfriend's marriage proposal. 'New Lease on Life' finds Grace deciding that she wants to move in with Will. 'Head Case' sees the flatmates arguing about bathroom rights. 'Between a Rock and Harlan's Place' has Grace draw up plans to decorate Harlan's place. 'Boo! Humbug' finds Will and Grace going trick-or-treating with Harlan's kids. 'William, Tell' sees Grace become suspicious of Will's relations with his clients. 'Where There's a Will There's No Way' has Grace become concerned about the amount of fun she is having with Will. 'The Buying Game' finds Will using some underhand means when Grace asks him to help her negotiate the purchase of her studio space. 'The Big Vent' sees the friends listening in on a real-life soap opera. 'The Truth About Will and Dogs' has Grace bring a new canine resident into the flat. 'Will on Ice' finds Grace and Jack waxing lyrical about professional ice skating. In 'My Fair Maidy', Will hires a maid to help keep the flat clean. In 'The Unsinkable Mommy Adler' Grace's mother comes to visit. 'Big Brother is Coming (Part 1)' has Will worried about a visit from his estranged older brother Sam. 'Big Brother is Coming (Part 2)' sees Will shocked to discover that Grace spent the night with Sam. 'Yours, Mine or Ours' finds Will and Grace fighting for the attention of a new neighbour. 'Secrets and Lays' has the friends take a weekend holiday in Vermont. 'Grace Replaced' sees Grace fight neighbour Val for the role of Will's right-hand-girl. 'Will Works Out' finds Will taking Jack for a work-out at his gym. 'Saving Grace' has Grace decorate the house of a man who wants to get a date with Will. 'Alley Cats' sees Grace try to become less competitive. Finally, in 'Object of My Rejection', Jack marries Karen's maid.