A comprehensive source of counselling skills for trainers, students and practitioners in the helping services. Preface, Introduction, Life Skills Theory, Life Skills Model of Practice, Counsellors as Persons, Develop the Relationship and Clarify Problems, Listening Skills, Showing Understanding Skills, Clarifying Problems Skills, Assess and Restate Problems in Skills Terms, Assess Feelings and Physical Reactions, Assess Thinking and Actions, Restate Problems in Skills Terms, Stage Goals and Plan Interventions, State Deficits as Goals, Plan Interventions, Intervene to Develop Life Skills, Delivering Interventions Skills, Interventions for Thinking, Interventions for Actions, Interventions for Feelings, Emphasize Take-Away and End, Emphasize Take-Away of Life Skills, End and Evaluate, Looking Ahead, Develop Your Counselling Skills, Bibliography, Name and Subject Index.