Counselling in Health Care Settings: A Handbook for Practitioners

ISBN-13: 9780230549425 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 312 str.

Amanda Evans

Opis

This solution-focused guide shows how to provide effective counselling with clients who are physically ill. Combining theory, real life examples and evidence-based approaches, the authors draw on their own experience to offer invaluable advice on highly complex and sensitive issues. This book gives tried-and-tested advice for all busy counsellors.

Spis treści

PART I: A 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

O autorze

ROBERT BOR is Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist in Medical Specialities at the Royal Free Hospital, London, UK. He is a fellow of the British Psychological Society and works in hospital, specialist and primary care settings.

RIVA MILLER is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Royal Free Hospital, London, UK. She has a background in social work, and is now also a Systemic Psychotherapist and a Family Therapist in the Haemophilia Centre, London. She has contributed to many books, including 'Doing Therapy Briefly', with Robert Bor and Sheila Gill.

SHEILA GILL is a counsellor for the Keats Group Practice, London, UK, and a student counsellor at the London School of Economics. She has worked in health care settings for many years and is co-author of a number of books on therapy in primary care contexts.

AMANDA EVANS is a chartered psychologist at the Royal Free Hospital, London, UK. She has over 20 years of experience as a psychologist in health care settings and in private practice. She has contributed to many publications in the areas of evidence based practice issues, ethical dilemmas in health care settings and psychological interventions in HIV management.

Blurb

Health care settings can differ greatly from other counselling environments, requiring newcomers to become familiar with new rituals, practices and cultures. This clear and comprehensive text shows trainees and qualified practitioners how to respond positively and with confidence to the diverse situations they might face in a variety of health care settings.

Practical, accessible and engaging, the book explores the ways in which the health care context – whether hospital, primary care, specialist or community setting - affects the counsellor's role and shapes the therapeutic process. The authors draw on their vast experience to give tried-and-tested advice on a variety of practice issues, from confidentiality and giving bad news to judging the pace and duration of sessions. In particular, the book:
? provides a pluralistic model for practice, including systemic, solution-focused, cognitive-behavioural and person-centred ideas;
? shows how to work collaboratively and effectively in a multi-disciplinary team;
? includes extensive examples, scripts of therapeutic encounters and handy checklists.

Counselling in Health Care Settings makes an excellent resource for busy practitioners and is an essential handbook for newly qualified therapists and trainees.