Human Relationship Skills: Coaching and Self-Coaching

by Richard Nelson-Jones

Human Relationship Coaching and Self-Coaching presents a practical 'how to' guide to relationship skills, showing how readers can improve and, where necessary, repair relationships. This thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition reflects the increased interest in coaching, showing how it can be applied to everyday life. In this essential book, Richard Nelson-Jones takes a cognitive-behavioural approach to coaching people in relationship skills. These skills are viewed as sequences of choices that people can make well or poorly; covering a range of skill areas the book assists readers to make affirming rather than destructive choices in their relationships. It begins by addressing the questions of "what are relationship skills?" and "what are coaching skills?", and follows with a series of chapters which thoroughly detail and illuminate various relationship skills - listening and showing understanding - managing shyness - intimacy and companionship - assertiveness and managing anger - managing relationship problems and ending relationships The book concludes with a chapter on how users can maintain and improve their skills by coaching themselves. Accessibly written and using activities, the book will be appropriate for those involved in 'life coaching' as well as general counselling and therapy. It will be essential reading for lecturers, coaches and trainers as well as students and anyone who wishes to improve their relationship skills.

280 pages, Paperback

First published July 12, 1990

Reviews

[Jyotika Varmani · Rating 5 out of 5]

I find all Richard Nelson-Jones books to be written for the layman. You need not be an expert to understand the content of the book.

This book deals with practical everyday issues like shyness, anger etc, with appropriate illustrations. The book is well organized with a good flow. It also includes interesting activities and section summaries to make for more active learning. It can be a useful reference to a student of counseling as it proceeds from more general skills to those that apply to specific cases. The book majorly focuses on partner issues, and thus, can be a good reference for couple counselors and marital therapists.

[J. Schmidt · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are plenty of valuable lessons in this book, but I struggled reading it because it is not written very smoothly and elegantly.