Guides: Community Services: Counselling

eBooks

Counselling Skills for Dummies (2013) Discover the practical skills for helping others. Whether you are considering becoming a counsellor, have to provide some form of counselling as part of your job, or are simply interested in communicating well, this book provides the perfect introduction to the practical basics of counselling.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (2020) Judith S. Beck demonstrates how to engage patients, develop a sound case conceptualization, plan individualized treatment, structure sessions, and implement core cognitive, behavioral, and experiential techniques.
Personal Counseling Skills : An Integrative Approach (2007) This book is a comprehensive, easy-to-read introduction to personal counseling written for professional and volunteer counselors and those who train them.
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Counseling and Psychotherapy (2015) This encyclopedia traces theory and examines the beginnings of counseling and psychotherapy all the way to current trends and movements.
List of Theorists - From Sage Encyclopedia of Theory in Counseling and Psychotherapy (2015) This list is from the Encyclopedia and attempts to match many of the theories with the theorist who developed it. In some cases, there are others who assisted in the development of the theory or are regularly known to be associated with the theory. It is not an exhaustive list as many individuals go into the development of a large portion of these theories.
Working with Drug and Alcohol Users (2012) This book provides an accessible guide to substance use and working with substance users. Using transactional analysis theory, the author explains why some people use substances, exploring different personality types, and covers the basic components of drug counseling.

Online Videos

Counselling psychology A collection of videos covering various aspects of counselling.
What is Gestalt Therapy? Gestalt is a creative, experimental type of therapy that aims to help you improve your awareness and overcome blocks in your life that may have begun in childhood.
Role Play: Person Centred Therapy Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors. The person-centred approach focuses on the client being able to develop a greater understanding of self in an environment which allows the client to resolve his or her own problems without direct intervention by the therapist.
Role Play: Solution Focused Therapy Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors Solution-focused therapies are founded on the rationale that there are exceptions to every problem and through examining these exceptions and having a clear vision of a preferred future, client and counsellor, together, can generate ides for solutions.
Therapeutic journeys: Counselling Aboriginal clients and their families This video demonstrates a brief five-step intervention program. The intervention is based on stress-coping-health model that has been used and tested with relatives of drug users in primary care settings.
Narrative Therapy with Children: With Stephen Madigan Watch expert Narrative therapist Stephen Madigan in an actual counseling session with a perfectionist 10-year old boy and his mother. Children can feel overtaken by family problems and allow those problems to define who they are. In this video, Stephen Madigan presents a refreshing approach that allows family members to separate themselves from their problems and retell their stories. By asking a series of compassionate questions, Madigan quickly gets to the heart of this family’s frustration–a pattern of competitive taunting among the six children in the house. Madigan then helps them uncover skills, strengths and solutions to take home in order to break the family pattern. Jon Carlson and Don Keat introduce Dr. Madigan, and facilitate an in-depth discussion of the further impact and uses of the model.

Books in the Library

At Risk Youth (2016) This text provides the conceptual and practical information on key issues and problems that you will need to prepare effectively for work with at-risk youth. Each chapter has resources that direct you to interesting and informative You Tube, TEDTalk, and research sites to expand upon and illustrate the written information. The authors describe and discuss the latest research-supported, evidence-based prevention and intervention techniques that will help you perform your job successfully and improve the lives of young people at risk.
Counselling Skills and Theory (2021) Trusted author Margaret Hough updates this bestselling resource that will provide you with the clearest introduction to the major approaches in counselling. Easy to read, clear and concise, this full colour updated edition will take you from learning to application with a variety of group tasks and case studies to explore and evaluate.
Fundamentals of Case Management Practice (2016) Focuses on student needs to consider, correct documentation procedures, transparent referral practices in each step of the human services process.
A safe place for change : skills and capacities for counselling and therapy (2012) Emphasises acquiring skills through practical experience in addition to knowledge, and self awareness to develop relationships.
Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy (2017) Incorporating the thinking, feeling, and behaving dimensions of human experience, this book helps you compare and contrast the therapeutic models expressed in counseling theories. It introduces you to the major theories (psychoanalytic, Adlerian, existential, person-centered, Gestalt, reality, behavior, cognitive-behavior, family systems, feminist, postmodern, and integrative approaches) and demonstrates how each theory can be applied to two cases.