Developing Counsellor Training

Assessing how counselling training may be analyzed, systematized, reconsidered and improved, this book raises the central issues which face those with an interest in the design or improvement of training courses and puts forward ideas about how such courses can be better organized, how training methods can be made more effective and how counselling skills can be more appropriately taught.

The book also covers areas such as trainers' self-care, working relationships, interpersonal dynamics and trainees' supervised work with clients. It does not disguise the problems involved in starting or running a training course, but provides encouraging advice, supported by case studies and examples, to show how these difficulties can be