Counseling individuals with life-threatening illness / Kenneth J. Doka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doka, Kenneth J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critically ill--Counseling of.

Critically ill.

Critically ill--Psychology.

Death--Psychological aspects.

Death.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With a Foreword by Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD. ""Where was this book when I was new as a counselor?....Fortunately, it is here now, and with all the scope, depth, resourcefulness, and balance required for such situations."". -Dr. Robert Kastenbaum, PhD. ""This book will now be an indispensable resource for anyone who wants to understand, counsel, or otherwise help individuals with life-threatening illnesses and their family members."". -- Charles A. Corr, PhD, CT. ""Without question, this is the book you'll want your own caregivers to have read should you ever contend with life-threatening illnes

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction: Counseling Individuals with a Life-Threatening Illness; Chapter 2 Historical Perspectives on Dying and Illness; Chapter 3 Effective Professional Caregivers: Seven Sensitivities; Chapter 4 The Skilled Counselor; Chapter 5 Responses to Life-Threatening Illness; Chapter 6 Understanding the Illness Experience; Chapter 7 The Prediagnostic Phase: Understanding the Road Before; Chapter 8 Counseling Clients Through Crisis of Diagnosis; Chapter 9 Counseling Clients in the Chronic Phase of Illness; Chapter 10 Counseling Clients in Recovery

Chapter 11 Counseling Clients in the Terminal Phase Chapter 12 Counseling Families During a Life-Threatening Illness; Appendix; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-96420-4

9786611964207

0-8261-1732-5

OCLC:

317754155