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Counselling and Communication Skills for Medical and Health Practitioners

Rowen Bayne (Editor), Paula Nicolson (Editor), Ian Horton (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-85433-256-1
Paperback
244 pages
April 1998, Wiley-Blackwell
US $51.95 Add to Cart
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Background.

1. Counselling and Communication in health care.

2. Looking after yourself.

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General Skills.

3. Listening: some basic qualities and skills.

4. Listening to stories about illness and health: applying the lessons of narrative psychology.

5. Mental illness and communication.

6. Increasing multicultural competence.

7. Psychological type (Myers-Briggs).

8. Group Membership.

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Specialised Skills and Settings.

9. Talking to children and adolescents about life, death and sex.

10. Talking about sexuality and sexual problems.

11. Working with infertility.

12. Solution-focused brief therapy: from hierarchy to collaboration.

13. Communicating about ethical dilemmas: a medical humanities approach.

14. Rehabilitation counselling.