Counselling in health care settings:a handbook for practitioners
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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Publisher Address: | New York |
Publication Dates: | 2009. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xvi, 302 p.: ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780230549425 (pbk.) 023054942X (pbk.) |
Index Number: | R749 |
CLC: |
R749.05-62 R395.6-62 |
Call Number: | R749.05-62/C855 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references(p.284-289) and index. Theoretical concepts -- Beliefs about health and counselling -- Adapting psychotherapeutic practice to the health care context -- Models of consultation and collaboration -- Counselling objectives in health care -- Exploring and defining problems in counselling -- The structure of the counselling session -- Specialist skills -- Promoting coping and resilience in the patient -- Reframing and creating balance in patient beliefs -- Working with the family in mind -- Application of cognitive behavioural therapy to health care settings -- Issues and challenges -- Dealing with confidentiality and secrets in the course of counselling -- Giving information and breaking bad news -- Counselling for loss, terminal care, and bereavement -- Counselling the "worried-well' and patients with health anxieties -- When progress in counselling seems elusive -- Counselling for the prevention of ill health -- Work stress and staff support. |