Counselling in health care settings : a handbook for practitioners /

• Bor, Robert.

• Health counselling.

• Palgrave Macmillan,

• 023054942X (pbk.)
• 9780230549425 (pbk.)

• Originally published: London: Cassell, 1998.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• PART I: FRAMEWORK FOR PRACTICE; Introduction; Theoretical Concepts; Beliefs about Health and Counselling; Adapting Psychotherapeutic Practice to the Health Care Context; Models of Consultation and Collaboration; PART II: CORE SKILLS; Counselling Objectives in Health Care; Exploring and Defining Problems in Counselling; The Structure of the Counselling Session; PART III: 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; PART IV: 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.

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