Human Relationship Skills: Training and Self-help - Softcover

Nelson-Jones, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0304319627 ISBN 13: 9780304319626

Publisher: Continuum (formerly Cassell Academic), 1990

Synopsis

Human Relationship Skills: Coaching and Self-Coaching presents a practical 'how to' guide to relationship skills, showing how readers can improve and, where necessary, repair relationships. This thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition reflects the increased interest in coaching, showing how it can be applied to everyday life.

In this essential book, Richard Nelson-Jones takes a cognitive-behavioural approach to coaching people in relationship skills. These skills are viewed as sequences of choices that people can make well or poorly; covering a range of skill areas the book assists readers to make affirming rather than destructive choices in their relationships. It begins by addressing the questions of "what are relationship skills?" and "what are coaching skills?", and follows with a series of chapters which thoroughly detail and illuminate various relationship skills including:

- listening and showing understanding

- managing shyness

- intimacy and companionship

- assertiveness and managing anger

- managing relationship problems and ending relationships

The book concludes with a chapter on how users can maintain and improve their skills by coaching themselves.

Accessibly written and using activities, the book will be appropriate for those involved in 'life coaching' as well as general counselling and therapy. It will be essential reading for lecturers, coaches and trainers as well as students and anyone who wishes to improve their relationship skills.

About this title

Synopsis:

In this second edition of "Human Relationship Skills" the author demonstrates how such skills can be learnt, encouraging readers to accept responsibility for developing them and putting them into practice. New to this edition are chapters on what the reader brings to relationships, on choosing relationships and on strengthening them, reflecting the emphasis on people working together rather than alone. This theme is backed up by exercises and suggestions for personal experiments throughout the book which can be worked through by readers on their own, in pairs or in groups. The book provides a text for students and tutors on courses concerned with human relationships, whether in schools, colleges, polytechnics, universities, the caring professions and voluntary agencies. The book will also appeal to general readers who are concerned with improving their own relationships.

About the Author:

Richard Nelson-Jones is a leading international author whose books have helped train many thousands of psychotherapists, counsellors and helpers worldwide. He has held university appointments in Britain and Australia, and is a Fellow of the British and Australian Psychological Societies and of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum (formerly Cassell Academic)
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0304319627
• ISBN 13: 9780304319626
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 336