Abstract

Training to be a counsellor can be an intense and demanding experience, full of stresses and anxieties. It can also be positive and fulfilling. This easy-to-use guide can help you make the most of your training so that you survive - and, importantly, enjoy - your course.
From choosing a course to writing a report, the book examines the biggest and passively most daunting issues you will face on the way to becoming qualified. The information is presented in easily digestible, bite-size chunks, so that you can dip in and out of the text as your training programme – and your understanding – progresses.
Drawing on the authors' extensive teaching experience and the wider literature, How to Survive Counsellor Training:
• Provides a realistic and reassuring advice at every stage, in order to reduce anxiety and allow you to grow in confidence
• Informs your choices and suggests possible actions and strategies
• Explains the rationale behind some aspects of training, offering hints about how to get the most out of the experience
• Helps and encourages you to take care of yourself and pay attention to your own personal development
• Warns you about some of the challenges you might face and suggests strategies for coping with them.
Clearly structured and a pleasure to read and use, this text is aimed at prospective and beginning trainees and will prove a practical and stimulating reference for counsellors throughout their training and beyond.
ROWAN BAYNE is Professor of Psychology at the University of East London, UK. He is the author and co-author of many books, including the very successful The Counsellor's Handbook: A Practical A-Z Guide to Professional and Clinical Practice 3rd edition (March 2008).
GORDON JINKS is Principal Lecturer and Programme Leader of Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of East London, UK. He has many years of clinical experience, and is co-author of The Counsellor's Handbook: A Practical A-Z Guide to Professional and Clinical Practice 3rd edition (March 2008).
"Bayne and Jinks have written a book that is refreshingly accessible. Short, succinct pieces give basic information on a wide range of topics, while following a counselling ethos of thoughtfulness and empathy. As a student I found sections that challenged me to look closely at my own beliefs and attitudes, and as a useful way to follow-up discussions at college."

- Dahlian Kirby, writer, teacher and counsellor in training, Therapy Today