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.

Terminal care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Springer Pub. Co., [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""With characteristic clarity, Doka draws on the classic and contemporary literature as well as his own pedagogy and practice in death and dying to offer orienting concepts for the whole spectrum of care people may require when illness intrudes into their lives. For each phase of the illness trajectory...he offers intelligent attention to the problems and prospects people confront, and in countless examples of actual clinical situations he brings to life the concepts that inform compassionate care."". From the Foreword by Robert A. Neimeyer , PhD. University of Memphis. This holistic, family-c

Contents:

Historical perspectives on dying and illness

Effective professional caregivers : seven sensitivities

The skilled counselor

Responses to life-threatening illness

Understanding the illness experience

The prediagnostic phase : understanding the road before

Counseling clients through crisis of diagnosis

Counseling clients in the chronic phase of illness

Counseling clients in recovery

Counseling clients in the terminal phase

Counseling families during an life-threatening illness.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8261-9582-2

OCLC:

856869966