- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (Jan 20 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0415174295
- ISBN-13: 978-0415174299
- Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 13.2 x 1.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #302,157 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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...extremely enjoyable. -- Paul Sussman, in the Independent on Sunday
A delightful book which...offers a gentle introduction to Transactional Analysis and much more. -- Relate News
An imaginative attempt to explain the counselling process..the idea of counselling is all around, but this demystifies it wittily -- Openmind
Counselling for Toads is a joy. -- Claire Rayner
For anyone wishing to know something about Transactional Analysis this is a clear and very readable introduction. -- The Friend
A delightful book which...offers a gentle introduction to Transactional Analysis and much more. -- Relate News
An imaginative attempt to explain the counselling process..the idea of counselling is all around, but this demystifies it wittily -- Openmind
Counselling for Toads is a joy. -- Claire Rayner
For anyone wishing to know something about Transactional Analysis this is a clear and very readable introduction. -- The Friend
Book Description
'Toad', the famous character in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows is in a very depressed state and his good friends Rat, Mole and Badger, are 'worried that he might do something silly'...
First they nursed him. Then they encouraged him. Then they told him to pull himself together... Finally, Badger could stand it no longer. That admirable animal, though long on exhortation, was short on patience.
'Now look here Toad, this can go on no longer', he said sternly. 'There is only one thing left. You must have counselling!'
Robert de Board's engaging account of Toad's experience of counselling will capture the imagination of the growing readership of people who are interested in counselling and the counselling process. Written as a real continuation of life on the River Bank, Toad and his friends come to life all over again.
Heron, the counsellor, uses the language and ideas of transactional analysis as his counselling method. Through the dialogues which make up the ten sessions, or chapters of the book, Toad learns how to analyse his own feelings and develop his emotional intelligence. He meets his 'rebellious child' and his 'adult' along the way, and by the end of the book, as debonair as ever he was, is setting out on a completely new adventure. As readers learn about Toad, so they can learn about themselves and be encouraged to take the path of psychological growth and development.
Best-selling author, Robert de Board says: 'Toad's experiences are based on my own experiences of counselling people over a period of twenty years. Counselling for Toads is really an amalgamation of the many counselling sessions I have held and contains a distillation of the truths I have learnt from practice.'
Appropriate for anyone approaching counselling for the first time, whether as a student or as a client, or for the professional counsellor looking for something to recommend to the hesitant, Counselling for Toads will appeal to both children and adults of all ages.
First they nursed him. Then they encouraged him. Then they told him to pull himself together... Finally, Badger could stand it no longer. That admirable animal, though long on exhortation, was short on patience.
'Now look here Toad, this can go on no longer', he said sternly. 'There is only one thing left. You must have counselling!'
Robert de Board's engaging account of Toad's experience of counselling will capture the imagination of the growing readership of people who are interested in counselling and the counselling process. Written as a real continuation of life on the River Bank, Toad and his friends come to life all over again.
Heron, the counsellor, uses the language and ideas of transactional analysis as his counselling method. Through the dialogues which make up the ten sessions, or chapters of the book, Toad learns how to analyse his own feelings and develop his emotional intelligence. He meets his 'rebellious child' and his 'adult' along the way, and by the end of the book, as debonair as ever he was, is setting out on a completely new adventure. As readers learn about Toad, so they can learn about themselves and be encouraged to take the path of psychological growth and development.
Best-selling author, Robert de Board says: 'Toad's experiences are based on my own experiences of counselling people over a period of twenty years. Counselling for Toads is really an amalgamation of the many counselling sessions I have held and contains a distillation of the truths I have learnt from practice.'
Appropriate for anyone approaching counselling for the first time, whether as a student or as a client, or for the professional counsellor looking for something to recommend to the hesitant, Counselling for Toads will appeal to both children and adults of all ages.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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On becoming a Toad, Sep 13 2000
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Counselling for Toads: A Psychological Adventure (Paperback)
If you are interested in counselling and have a soft spot for the exuberant, exasperating, funny and irrepressible Toad - the riverbank celebrity in Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows - you will find Robert de Board's book absorbing, amusing and informative. On a belated visit to Toad Hall, Mole finds the formerly splendid gardens overgrown, the once grand entertaining rooms and guest rooms closed up, and his erstwhile hero and friend Toad reduced to the state of embarrassed and unkempt hermit in his own kitchen. What will happen now that Toad's bonhomie has bottomed out? Will the wildwooders will finally gain the upper hand? And, worst of all, is the riverbank to lose its most colourful character?Relating his discovery to Ratty, the riverbank friends decide that there is only one road left for Toad to travel; the path of self-discovery and personal development through counselling. But de Board's book is touching and engaging rather than po-faced or pontificating, as it traces this most life-changing of Toad's adventures. In keeping with the best of humorous writing, Counselling for Toads, is serious at heart. This is likely to make it especially palatable to those with a healthy streak of scepticism about the value of therapy. de Board gives an excellent introduction to the aims of counselling, the nature of the therapeutic relationship and the nuts and bolts of Transactional Analysis. While it is easy to read, it does not shy away from technical terms where these are necessary.
Discover the roots of Toad's penchant for adventure as he tells Heron, his counsellor, of his childhood and his relationships with family and friends. Toad's encounter with therapy turns out to be an education not only for this deserving hero, but for all those who would be close to him.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Superb read, Oct 10 2005
By J. Heap - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Counselling for Toads: A Psychological Adventure (Paperback)
I loved this book. As a counsellor I often have difficulty trying to explain what I do. This book for me has two main factors. Firstly it gives the reader a insight in the counselling skills and how they are utilised with the counselling process thus expalining how the counselling process works. Secondly by incorperating this into a story it makes it easier for more people to read. I want to share this book with many people.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Couldn't put it down.Finished it the same day I started it., Aug 14 2008
By Charles R. Cormier "chuckrman" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Counselling for Toads: A Psychological Adventure (Paperback)
I have read alot of books in 56 years and this ranks in the top 5 of my all time list .It should be rquired reading for every high school student in the country.
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