7 must-read counselling books like Counselling Skills and Studies by Fiona Ballantine Dykes

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Counselling Skills and Studies

By: Fiona Ballantine Dykes

4.30

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Are your students looking to use counselling skills to enhance their existing helping role or wanti…

If you liked the counselling plot in Counselling Skills and Studies by Fiona Ballantine Dykes , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Counselling for Toads

By: Kenneth Grahame , Robert De Board

4.29

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Over 3 million copies sold worldwide and translated into seven languages! For over 25 years Counsel… read more

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2. Person-Centred Counselling in Action

By: Dave Mearns , Brian Thorne

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

The discussion of empathy, acceptance and congruence is central and should be required reading for … read more

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3. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams Reaching Your Destiny

By: Robin S. Sharma

3.77

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Wisdom to Create a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Peace This inspiring tale provides a step-by-step … read more

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4. The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

By: Alice Miller , None

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

As charming performers who skillfully reflect their parents expectations, far too many children gro… read more

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5. The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this beautiful and lucid guide, Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh offers gentle anecdotes and practical… read more

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6. The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients

By: Irvin D. Yalom , Nicola Ferguson

3.66

Format: 162 pages,

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7. When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

By: Gabor Maté

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In this accessible and groundbreaking book--filled with the moving stories of real people--medical … read more

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8. Jamaica Inn

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.89

Format: 320 pages, ebook

The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coas… read more

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"For the sake of your bright eyes, Jem Merlyn."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

"I like the look of you and the feel of you, and that's enough for any man. It ought to be enough for a woman too."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

"Roads? Who spoke of roads? We go by the moor and the hills, and tread granite and heather as the Druids did before us."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

"She was a woman, and for no reason in heaven or earth she loved him. He had kissed her, and she was bound to him for ever."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

9. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

By: None

4.27

Format: 127 pages, Hardcover

A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold n… read more

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10. Man's Search for Meaning

By: Viktor E. Frankl

3.93

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of lif… read more

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11. Queenie

By: Candice Carty-Williams

3.86

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures a… read more

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"Never trust a gemini man"

-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

"Being brave isn’t the same as being okay."

-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

"It's a family thing. It is an annoying and time-wasting thing."

-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

"Actually, no man is as funny as me or any woman I’ve ever met."

-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

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12. Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

By: Julie Smith

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith provides… read more

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"When we focus on trying to fix the problem, it is easy to underestimate the power of simply being there."

-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

"In acceptance, the new reality is still not OK. It is still not as we want it to be. But we begin to take on the new reality, listen to our needs, open up to new experiences and make connections."

-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

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13. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

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"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

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14. This Much is True

By: Miriam Margolyes

4.09

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a … read more

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"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

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15. Really Good, Actually

By: Monica Heisey

3.16

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning … read more

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"You’ll like dating, everyone eats ass now."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

"The truth is, if you start your eating disorder even slightly overweight, no one will notice until things are very much at the ‘what if two meals a day were soup’ stage."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

"It seemed impossible that I was supposed to keep loving - even revering - my body as it decomposed in slow motion. Why not give in and have low self-esteem? Maybe I could slay in that way instead."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

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16. And How Does That Make You Feel?: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Therapy

By: Joshua Fletcher

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the closed door of the therapist's office? Psychotherapi… read more

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17. The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

By: Margaret Atwood

4.19

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way … read more

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"We can’t always do what we want,"

-Margaret Atwood, The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

"Nobody is any authority of the fucks other people give."

-Margaret Atwood, The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

"I made choices, and then, having made them, I had fewer choices."

-Margaret Atwood, The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

"You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you."

-Margaret Atwood, The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

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18. The Nothing Man

By: Catherine Ryan Howard

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

At the age of twelve, Eve Black was the only member of her family to survive an encounter with seri… read more

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"Fiction only really worked if it was built like a lattice through which you were repeatedly offered glimpses of absolute truth."

-Catherine Ryan Howard, The Nothing Man

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19. Counselling Skills and Studies

By: Fiona Ballantine Dykes

4.30

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Are your students looking to use counselling skills to enhance their existing helping role or wanti… read more

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20. Learning to Counsel: 3rd edition

By: Jan Sutton

4.18

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Relevant to a range of people, in the workplace and home, counselling skills can improve the qualit… read more

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Cover of First Steps In Counselling: A Student's Companion for Basic Introductory Courses by Pete Sanders

21. First Steps In Counselling: A Student's Companion for Basic Introductory Courses

By: Pete Sanders

4.15

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

First Steps in Counselling is essentially a book about helping and this fifth edition has been upda… read more

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"It is in the nature of helping and counselling to be a process moving towards something rather than arriving at a state of completion."

-Pete Sanders, First Steps In Counselling: A Student's Companion for Basic Introductory Courses

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David Nicholls

4.08

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