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Counselling in Medical Settings Patricia L. East

Counselling in Medical Settings By Patricia L. East

Counselling in Medical Settings by Patricia L. East


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Summary

An overview of counselling and counselling skills, focusing on specific issues pertinent to counsellors from a variety of medical backgrounds. The text describes the emergence and growth of counselling in medical settings and examines the issues surrounding its incorporation into this context.

Counselling in Medical Settings Summary

Counselling in Medical Settings by Patricia L. East

This text describes the emergence and growth of counselling in medical settings and examines the issues surrounding its incorporation into this context. Written in an accessible style, it provides an overview of counselling and counselling skills, focusing on specific issues pertinent to counsellors from a variety of medical backgrounds. The author's account of counselling in medical settings and the meaning of illness for individuals is supplemented by the extensive use of examples and case material from practitioners.

Counselling in Medical Settings Reviews

"...achieves its aim admirably - it puts counselling in medical settings into context. As someone who has been counselling in a GP practice for five years, I very much appreciated, and learned from,this chance to step back and see the wider picture." - British Association for Counselling ( Generation of PM publication page 46) "...gives a helpful range of historical, theoretical and practical material in relation to counselling in the context of health-care." - Contact: The Interdisciplinary Journal ofPastoral Studies "...this book offers those in Relatea chance tobroaden perspectives and to consider where - and where not - Relate has an appropriate part to play in developing counselling in medical settings." - Relate News "...a useful addition to the burgeoning literature on counselling in primary care becauseit addresses many areas which hitherto have been ignored." - Psychodynamic Counselling "...an interesting and informative read for health care professionals concerned with the provision of person-centred medical care." - Nursing Review.

Table of Contents

The development of counselling in medical settings; counselling; the practice of counselling; specific issues in counselling; professional relationships in counselling; a critique of counselling.

Additional information

GOR004114196
9780335192410
0335192416
Counselling in Medical Settings by Patricia L. East
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Open University Press
1995-01-01
160
N/A
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