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Counselling Skills
How core counselling skills can be used in a counselling
relationship and in other helping activities
The core skills that you have learned about in the previous section can be used in
counselling or other helping activities because they help the counsellor or helper to
focus on the client and the client’s wishes and feelings. Most importantly, they are
skills that make the client feel valued.
Counselling skills can be used in any relationship where people need help and
support, although it should be stressed that counselling is not the same as giving
advice. Giving advice is about giving people information and suggesting pathways
that they should follow. Using counselling skills is about helping people to find their
own solutions to problems that they face and enabling them to make beneficial
changes to their behaviour.
Key Fact
Using counselling skills is not the same as giving advice.
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