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11. Useful Counselling Micro-Skills In the previous chapter we discussed the way counsellors can make use of typical adolescent communication processes such as mutual self-disclosure and digression. We also discussed issues of control and advice-giving. In this chapter, we will discuss a vari- ety of Counselling Micro-Skills which, when Counselling young people, can be used to promote strongly believe that these Micro-Skills need to be used in a context which at some level parallels the normal adolescent communication processes as described in the previous chapter. Counselling Micro-Skills commonly used with adults are also Useful when counsel- ling young people, but there are some important differences in the way in which they are selected and used when working with young people. Many counsellors who work with adults typically make extensive use of those par- ticular Counselling Micro-Skills which fit with their primary theoretical frame of reference.

Counselling micro-skills can be used either in direct response to the needs of the counselling process or in conjunction with any of the counselling strategies described in Chapters 14 to 17. Counselling micro-skills can be broadly grouped under the fol-lowing headings, although there will be some overlap: ••observation ••active listening

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