Basic Counselling Skills for Teachers

Basic Counselling Skills for Teachers provides teachers and school staff with an accessible guide, and easy-to-apply skills, to providing counselling to students in a school setting. It looks at what counselling is and what it is not, how to recognise that a student may need counselling, creating the right environment, and maintaining confidentiality.

Throughout the book, Tim Dansie provides case studies and strategies for teachers that will help them to encourage students to open up and talk whilst having a model to follow outlining a Solution-Focused Counselling approach. It includes easy-to-understand chapters on counselling for:

• grief
• bullying
• anger
• anxiety
• depression
• friendships
• career guidance
• technology addiction.

Concise and practical, this book is essential reading for teachers who want to develop their counselling skills and be able to confidently support students in many of the challenges they face on their journey through school.

Introduction

1. Why Are Teachers Good Counsellors?
2. Why We Teach Problem-Solving Skills
3. Counselling for Teachers
4. The Solution Focussed Counselling Model
5. Counselling Techniques
6. Counselling for Grief
7. Counselling to Develop Friendships
8. Counselling for Career Guidance
9. Counselling Students Who Are Developing an Addiction to Technology
10. Counselling for Bullying
11. Counselling for Anger
12. Counselling for Anxiety
13. Counselling for Depression
14. Looking After Yourself When Counselling

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References

Tim Dansie is a Registered Psychologist and Teacher who works in Private Practice in Adelaide, South Australia, whilst also presenting training seminars to schools throughout Australia.