Counselling in health care settings:a handbook for practitioners

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Bor Robert.
Published: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: 2009.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
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.