Counselling in health care settings
Subtitle: a handbook for practitioners
By: Robert Bor ... [et al.].
Contributors: Bor, Robert.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230549425
Subjects: Mental health counseling -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Hospital patients -- Counseling of -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Counseling -- methods; Psychology, Medical -- methods
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Theoretical concepts; title: Beliefs about health and counselling; title: Adapting psychotherapeutic practice to the health care context; title: Models of consultation and collaboration; title: Counselling objectives in health care; title: Exploring and defining problems in counselling; title: The structure of the counselling session; title: Specialist skills; title: Promoting coping and resilience in the patient; title: Reframing and creating balance in patient beliefs; title: Working with the family in mind; title: Application of cognitive behavioural therapy to health care settings; title: Issues and challenges; title: Dealing with confidentiality and secrets in the course of counselling; title: Giving information and breaking bad news; title: Counselling for loss, terminal care, and bereavement; title: Counselling the "worried-well' and patients with health anxieties; title: When progress in counselling seems elusive; title: Counselling for the prevention of ill health; title: Work stress and staff support.