ISBN-13: 9780192631565 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 290 str.
The authors include practitioners and academics, service providers and counselling clients, supporters and skeptics. Overall they offer a co mprehensive and thought provoking guide to those responsible for commi ssioning, working with providing counslling services in a health servi ce that seeks to be increasingly primary care led and evidence based. This book discusses the establishment and evaluation of counselling se rvices in primary care and the need to consider the most appropriate f orms of service for different groups. It describes the specialist coun selling services that are available to back up what can be provided as part of primary care and the variety of organizations that can be app roached for information and advice, and assesses the research evidence on the efficacy and cost effectiveness of counselling.