Basic Personal Counselling (9th Edition)

Basic Personal Counselling (BPC) is the market-leading text addressing units in Counselling and Community Services qualifications – both robust disciplines in the vocational market. The text is an easy-to-read introduction to counselling skills for both professional and volunteer counsellors, and workers in the helping professions.

This ninth edition of Basic Personal Counselling includes new content on self-care, the use of technology in counselling, provides a scaffolded and integrated approach to counselling skills and is accompanied by a grid aligning to competencies.

Instructor resources include NEW intermediate mapping grid, updated case database and revised PowerPoints and Test Banks.

Features:

• Aligned to communication competencies in the Community Services training package for delivery
• Ancillary material includes additional cases and PowerPoints for lesson planning
• Mapped to communication competencies in the Community Services training package for an aligned delivery
• New chapter, 'Becoming a counsellor' addresses the need for reflection on practice by students, and provides students with templates, which may also be used by teachers to assess student performance

New to Edition:

• New chapter on anxiety
• New chapter, 'Becoming a counsellor' encourages students to find ways of testing their assumptions about counselling
• New mapping to Communication competencies in the Diploma of Counselling and Community Services