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Counselling in health care settings : a handbook for practitioners /

Counselling in health care settings : a handbook for practitioners / Robert Bor ... [et al.]. - xvi, 302 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-289) and index.

Theoretical concepts -- Beliefs about ill 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 -- Promoting coping and resilience in the patient -- Reframing and creating balance in patients' beliefs -- Working with the family in mind -- Cognitive behavioural therapy in health care settings -- 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.

9780230549425 (pbk.) 023054942X (pbk.)


Counseling, methods
Psychology, Medical - methods

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