Counselling in health care settings : a handbook for practitioners /
Bor, Robert,author.
Gil, Sheila,author.
Miller, Riva,author.
Evans, Amanda,1957-author.
Includes bibliographical references 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.
Mental health counseling
Hospital patients
Counseling
Psychology, Medical
Mental health counseling.