"The health care professional working in a palliative care setting may be familiar with a professional counsellor working as a member of the care team. They may not always recognise the empowering effect that the use of empathy and counselling skills can have in their own encounters with patients and families. This book will give them the insight they need, the encouragement to apply skills, and the satisfaction that can come from the 'emotional holding' of distress, as well as the practical interventions that are a familiar part of clinical care." - Margaret Potter, Freelance Lecturer/Counsellor, Bereavement Studies "This is a very empowering book. With its emphasis on all health care professionals having an important role in listening, accepting and eliciting the feelings and fears of patients as they face the end of life. After reading this book, I felt reassured to see some of the ways that I handle these difficult issues illustrated, and stimulated to reflect on alternative ways that might be of help in the future. The text centres around a series of carefully drafted vignettes, which are then skillfully used in the subsequent text to illustrate issues in a grounded and relevant way" - Dr Stephen Barclay, General Practitioner, Honorary Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Health Services Research Training Fellow, University of Cambridge This book is for people working in palliative care, helping patients and families to manage and live with chronic and progressive illnesses where treatment is no longer aimed at a cure. Palliative care professionals are encouraged to work holistically, viewing themselves and their relationships with patients as significant therapeutic resources in their own right. The authors argue that sensitive counselling skills need to be used effectively by all palliative workers, not just by counsellors. The book discusses the place of counselling skills using an integrative biopsychosocial model of family systems medicine, taking into account interactions between family life cycles, social conceptions of illness and treatment, the psychosocial typology of particular diseases, and family/professional belief systems. Each chapter considers counselling skills in relation to the overall care system (including the professional team and the family), not just the patient with the disease. Ideas are explored through clinical vignettes of common scenarios in palliative care.

Counselling Skills In Palliative Care

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Davy, John

Mental Health

Open University Press

(Open University Press) City Univ., London, UK. A text for nurses and counselors, offering guidance for empowering patients to be open and deal with their feelings at the end of their lives. Includes case notes and discussions that illustrate difficult issues, emphasizing the important role of the counselor or therapist in palliative care. Hardcover, softcover also available.

Counselling Skills for Palliative Care

Ellis, Susan

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Open Univ Pr

Barriers, Defences and Resistance (Core Concepts in Therapy)

This book focuses on ways in which therapists can conceptualize barriers, defenses, and resistances in therapy, linking this with implications for therapeutic practice. As well as being of particular interest to counselors, counseling psychologists, and psychotherapists, the book will also be of value to professionals such as nurses and occupational therapists.

Barriers, Defences And Resistance (Core Concepts in Therapy)

Psychology & Counseling

This book analyses the debates around the related concepts of barriers, defences and resistance across different forms of psychotherapy. Rather than presenting a single model, different understandings and usages of these terms are compared and contrasted using biopsychosocial, developmental and contextual perspectives. The book suggests how divergent theoretical positions might usefully be connected, but also highlights the pitfalls of poaching ideas and metaphors from other approaches with different epistemological or ethical foundations. Readers are invited to reflect on their own habitual and preferred standpoints in therapy, supervision and training, in order to help enhance the use of self in therapeutic relationships.

Cross, Malcolm

Work arising from the life of Rudolf Steiner: Articles published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Rudolf Steiner

Politics & Social Sciences

STEINER, RUDOLF

Social Sciences

R. Steiner Press

A study of scientific methodology which demonstrates the role of the mind in the scientific world picture.

Matter and Mind: Imaginative Participation in Science

Maier, Georg

Gebert, Hans

Edelgass, Stephen

Floris Books

In this study, the four authors all of whom have been involved in the teaching and practice of science challenge the assumption of the detached observer in scientific research and present examples of a phenomenological approach that includes an awareness of the role of the human knower in the development of scientific concepts. Published by Lindisfarne Press, RR 4 Box 94 A1, Hudson, New York 12534. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Edelglass, Stephen

Science & Math

Lindisfarne Pr

Few would question the fact that sense experience originally provided a firm basis for empirical natural science. Yet contemporary science has reduced the world to particles and forces that lie well beyond the reach of our human senses. The extraordinary -- and alienating -- fact is that human experience no longer has a place within our scientific worldview.
The authors of this book, a revised edition of Matter and Mind, have begun to unravel this paradox. They show that the concepts of modern physics such as mass, force, or velocity are deeply rooted in the experience of specific senses. Each of our senses is a gateway into a different aspect of the world. This insight throws a new light on the dilemmas of contemporary science, such as the wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics.
By recognizing the essential role of sense perception in scientific knowledge, this highly readable book lays the foundations for a science that, while maintaining its rigorous methodology, can begin to incorporate the fullness of human experience into its domain.

Marriage of Sense and Thought (Renewal in Science)

Philosophy

Lindisfarne Books

The twenty-seven articles in this book reflect the author's work as scientist, journalist, and lecturer: articles on questions of evolution, language, education, science, caring for the planet, life after life, and contemporary thinkers like Schurmacher and Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.

Hope, Evolution, and Change

Hawthorn Pr

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Some Observations On Fish: In Relation To Diet (1853)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

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