I have just finished reading the book "Basic Personal counselling"written by David Geldard. I feel this is a very good book in introducing a lot of counselling basic skills. It gives very brief and concise account of the Counselling "micro-skills" and also the "Macro-skills" which is the whole counselling process. The book also touches the telephone counselling and cirisis intervention. The last part of the book deals with some particular problems in counselling such as counselling angry client, depressed client, grief and loss counselling and counselling the suicidal client.
The book is so good that it arouses my interest in studying counselling and absorbs me to the fantasy of becoming a Counseller. Although it might not be practical for me to study a professional Counselling qualification, I feel good to have some knowledge of Counselling that I may one day use it to help people around me or even myself.
