1st Edition

Egan's Skilled Helper Model Developments and Implications in Counselling

By Val Wosket Copyright 2006
286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

The skilled helper model of counselling is hugely influential in the helping professions. Egan's Skilled Helper Model brings a number of new and challenging perspectives to bear on Egan's work and makes a major contribution to the development of this problem-management and opportunity-development approach to helping. Val Wosket draws on over twenty years experience of counselling, training... Read more

Egan, Foreword. Introduction. Background and Context to the Skilled Helper Model. Overview of the Skilled Helper Model 1: Stage One. Overview of the Skilled Helper Model 2: Stage Two. Critiques and Commentaries of the Skilled Helper Model. Using the Skilled Helper Model in Training. Research, Supervision and the Skilled Helper Model. Dunnett, Gabriel, Hobman, Laycock, Pendle, Roberts, Smith, Storr, Warren, Developments and Applications of the Skilled Helper Model: A Roundtable of Views.

Biography

Val Wosket is Senior Lecturer in Counselling at York St John College. She is a BACP accredited Counsellor, Supervisor and Trainer and also works in private practice.  Her previous publications include The Therapeutic Use of Self: Counselling Practice, Research and Supervision and, with Steve Page, Supervising the Counsellor: A Cyclical Model.

'This book will benefit readers at alll stages of learning, using and teaching the Egan model.' - Brigid Breckman, Nursing Standard