Creating Happy Relationships: A Guide to Partner Skills - Softcover

Nelson-Jones, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0304705063 ISBN 13: 9780304705061

Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 1999

Synopsis

Based on the assumption that two hearts are better than one, this work provides an optimistic and practical guide to skills for starting, maintaining and cultivating successful partner relationships, whether of opposite sexes or the same sex. The book places particular focus on "empowering your mind", as well as "developing your communication skills" and seeks to teach the reader important mind skills. The author shows readers how to become happier by using better mind skills to improve external communication in key relationship areas.

About this title

About the Author

Richard Nelson-Jones was born in London in 1936. Having spent five years in California as a Second World War refugee, he returned in the 1960s to obtain a Masters and Ph.D from Stanford University. In 1970, he was appointed a lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Aston to establish a Diploma in Counselling in Educational Settings, which started enrolling students in 1971. During the 1970s, he was helped by having three Fulbright Professors from the United States, each for a year, who both taught students and improved his skills. During this period he broadened out from a predominantly client-centred orientation to becoming much more cognitive-behavioural. He also wrote numerous articles and the first edition of what is now The Theory and Practice of Counselling and Therapy, which was published in 1982. In addition, he chaired the British Psychological Society's Working Party on Counselling and, in1982, became the first chairperson of the BPS Counselling Psychology Section.

In 1984, he took up a position as a counselling and later counselling psychology trainer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, where he became an Associate Professor. He continued writing research articles, articles on professional issues and books, which were published in London and Sydney. As when he worked at Aston University, he also counselled clients to keep up his skills. In 1997, he retired from RMIT and moved to Chiang Mai in Thailand. There, as well as doing some counselling and teaching, he has continued as an author of counselling and counselling psychology textbooks. A British and Australian citizen, he now divides his time between Chiang Mai and London and regularly visits Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0304705063
• ISBN 13: 9780304705061
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250