Effective Counselling With Young People

Download or read book Effective Counselling with Young People written by Hazel Reid and published by Learning Matters. This book was released on 2011-05-20 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines key theoretical counselling perspectives and applies these specifically to work with young people. It establishes how to build counselling relationships in order to support young people and enable them to achieve positive outcomes and to manage their lives effectively. It also identifies the key counselling skills needed to engage in purposeful, helping conversations. There are sections on understanding adolescent development, exploring person-centred principles and understanding and using motivational interviewing - all of which help to blend academic theory with the realities of practice.