Counselling and Communication Skills for

This is a highly practical handbook aimed specifically at medical and health care professionals. The book begins with an overview of the main issues of counselling and communication looking also at the importance of self-care from both a personal and organizational perspective. Basic counselling and communication skills are followed by their application to specialised settings including sexual health, child health, infertility and rehabilitation.

This book brings together the practical experience of 14 professionals working in various specialisms within counselling, making it one of the most authoritative general counselling books in this area.

Ackground
Counselling and Communication in health care
Looking after yourself
Eneral Skills
Listening: some basic qualities and skills
Listening to stories about illness and health: applying the lessons of narrative psychology
Mental illness and communication
Increasing multicultural competence
Psychological type (Myers-Briggs)
Group Membership
Pecialised Skills and Settings
Talking to children and adolescents about life, death and sex.0
Talking about sexuality and sexual problems
Working with infertility
Solution-focused brief therapy: from hierarchy to collaboration
Communicating about ethical dilemmas: a medical humanities approach
Rehabilitation counselling
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Counselling and Communication Skills for Medical and Health Practitioners

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