Counseling individuals with life-threatening illness
By: Kenneth J. Doka.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780826115416
Subjects: Critically ill -- Counseling of; Critically ill -- Psychology; Death -- Psychological aspects; Attitude to Death; Counseling; Critical Illness -- psychology; Family Health; Terminally Ill -- psychology
Description: This title is a comprehensive and holistic guide for counsellors, social workers, and health care professionals as they assist clients experiencing a serious illness. The book builds on a model developed by the author and based upon earlier work by Avery Weisman and E.M. Patterson.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Counseling individuals with a life-threatening illness; title: Historical perspectives on dying and illness; title: Effective professional caregivers : seven sensitivities; title: The skilled counselor; title: Responses to life-threatening illness; title: Understanding the illness experience; title: The prediagnostic phase : understanding the road before; title: Counseling clients through crisis of diagnosis; title: Counseling clients in the chronic phase of illness; title: Counseling clients in recovery; title: Counseling clients in the terminal phase; title: Counseling families during an life-threatening illness.