Mhairi MacMillan and Dot Clark are both counsellors in private practice in Scotland.

`This is a very practical "how to" book, written for students on counselling skills courses. It is intended to help them through the various problems faced by people returning to education, perhaps after a long gap.... how useful this book could be to students who [are] confused by the increasingly academic requirements of counselling training courses... I would recommend this book as a companion for anyone who is starting a course with little or no experience of academic expectations. It is written in a friendly and reassuring style′ - Counselling, The Journal of the British Association for Counselling

• PART ONE: LEARNINGAt the BeginningThe Training CourseLearning Style in a Learning CommunitySkills and TechniquesExperiential LearningPART TWO: COMMUNICATING LEARNINGHow Do I Know What I Mean Unless I Say (or Write) It?The Requirements of the CourseAssessmentStarting To WriteWriting Takes FormUsing Other People′s WorkProblems, Problems, ProblemsMotivation, Concentration and Writing BlockWriting about PracticePART THREE: CONTINUING TO LEARN AND TO WRITEBeyond the Training CourseContinuing To WriteOur Experience of Writing This Book

Mhairi MacMillan and Dot Clark are both counsellors in private practice in Scotland.

`This is a very practical "how to" book, written for students on counselling skills courses. It is intended to help them through the various problems faced by people returning to education, perhaps after a long gap.... how useful this book could be to students who [are] confused by the increasingly academic requirements of counselling training courses... I would recommend this book as a companion for anyone who is starting a course with little or no experience of academic expectations. It is written in a friendly and reassuring style′ - Counselling, The Journal of the British Association for Counselling

• PART ONE: LEARNINGAt the BeginningThe Training CourseLearning Style in a Learning CommunitySkills and TechniquesExperiential LearningPART TWO: COMMUNICATING LEARNINGHow Do I Know What I Mean Unless I Say (or Write) It?The Requirements of the CourseAssessmentStarting To WriteWriting Takes FormUsing Other People′s WorkProblems, Problems, ProblemsMotivation, Concentration and Writing BlockWriting about PracticePART THREE: CONTINUING TO LEARN AND TO WRITEBeyond the Training CourseContinuing To WriteOur Experience of Writing This Book

Mhairi MacMillan and Dot Clark are both counsellors in private practice in Scotland.

`This is a very practical "how to" book, written for students on counselling skills courses. It is intended to help them through the various problems faced by people returning to education, perhaps after a long gap.... how useful this book could be to students who [are] confused by the increasingly academic requirements of counselling training courses... I would recommend this book as a companion for anyone who is starting a course with little or no experience of academic expectations. It is written in a friendly and reassuring style′ - Counselling, The Journal of the British Association for Counselling

• PART ONE: LEARNINGAt the BeginningThe Training CourseLearning Style in a Learning CommunitySkills and TechniquesExperiential LearningPART TWO: COMMUNICATING LEARNINGHow Do I Know What I Mean Unless I Say (or Write) It?The Requirements of the CourseAssessmentStarting To WriteWriting Takes FormUsing Other People′s WorkProblems, Problems, ProblemsMotivation, Concentration and Writing BlockWriting about PracticePART THREE: CONTINUING TO LEARN AND TO WRITEBeyond the Training CourseContinuing To WriteOur Experience of Writing This Book