Clinical Counselling in Primary Care examines the complexities and variety of uses of clinical counselling employed in a medical setting. With an estimated 2 in 3 GP sugeries now employing a counsellor or refering patients on a regular basis, this book tackles key debates head-on. It discusses a range of important clinical issues such as:
* therapeutic framework
* clinical work as part of the greater whole
* the need to develop suitable therapeutic models.
Clinical Counselling in Primary Care looks at possible developments in the future and argues for the...

Clinical Counselling in Community and Voluntary Settings provides an overview of the development of counselling in a world of managed care, where resources are tight and professionals are stretched to their limits. Experienced contributors from a varied and diverse background cover issues including:
* the place of community and voluntary organisations in society at large
* the nature of counselling in voluntary and community settings
* containment and holding
* the nature of the client group and its affect on clinical work
This book will provide theoretical and...