Counselling Skills For Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors by Dawn Freshwater

Counselling Skills For Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors by Dawn Freshwater

Counselling is a diverse activity and there are an increasing number of people who find themselves using counselling skills, not least those in the caring professions. There is a great deal of scope in using counselling skills to promote health in the everyday encounters that nurses have with their patients.

Dawn Freshwater is Head of Academic Research Centre in Practice (Primary Care and Mental Health), Bournemouth University and West Dorset NHS Trusts. She has been involved in various nationally and internationally funded research projects concerned with practice development and service evaluation, including the implementation of clinical supervision and reflective practice in the prison healthcare service (DoH funded), the nurse-patient relationship (UKCC funded) and the evaluation of the Diana Community Children's Services for children with life limited illness. She is a registered psychotherapist and has a keen interest in the therapeutic use of self in the helping professions. Having worked as a counsellor in General Practice she now maintains a small private counselling and supervision practice. She sits on the board of directors of the International Association for Human Caring. She is an editorial board member of nursing journals and has co-edited and authored a number of publications. She has presented at numerous international conferences and is the recipient of the Distinguished Nurse Researcher award, 2000.

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ISBN 13	9780335207817
ISBN 10	0335207812
Title	Counselling Skills For Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors
Author	Dawn Freshwater
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Open University Press
Year published	2003-04-16
Number of pages	136
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