Counselling and Psychotherapy for Families in Times of Illness and - Deat

Informationen zum Autor JENNY ALTSCHULER is a Consultant Clinical psychologist and Family Psychotherapist in the UK. Klappentext Living with serious illness can have profound emotional effects both on patients themselves and on those close to them. With clarity and compassion, this text explores the difficulties and dilemmas those who are ill and their families face, offering specific guidelines for the professionals who work with them. Building on its successful first edition, this text draws on recent developments in research and clinical practice in providing a theoretical and practical framework for working with illness. Thoroughly revised in its second edition, this book: . Features new chapters on the cultural constructs of illness, working with migrant families, illness in later life, death and palliative care and supervision . Explores issues of working with diversity, covering gender, class, race and sexuality . Discusses the impact of working with those facing serious illness on health care professionals, offering strategies for reducing the risks of burnout, compassion fatigue and secondary traumatisation Written by a recognized expert in the field, this innovative and challenging book provides essential insights for professionals working or training to work with those facing illness and death, including doctors, nurses, counsellors, psychologists, psychotherapists and social workers. Zusammenfassung Living with serious illness has profound effects not only on patients themselves but also on their families. This fully updated edition by a recognized expertfocuses on the individual in context, showing how relationships can alleviate suffering and maximise the chances of healing. A practical guide to those working with illness. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction The Effects of Illness and Disability on Families Applying Systemic Techniques and Ideas to Health Care Childhood and Adolescent Experiences of Illness Parenting in the Face of Illness Illness and Adult Relationships Illness in Later Life Death, Bereavement and Living Beyond Loss Migration and Cross-cultural Context Personal-Professional Aspects of Healthcare AppendixI: Genograms....

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• Authors: Jenny Altschuler, Jenny (London) Altschuler, Altschuler Jenny
• Assisted by: Stephen Frosh (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.12.2011
• EAN: 9780230521001
• ISBN: 978-0-230-52100-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Basic Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy; Basic Texts in Counselling and; Basic Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy; Basic Texts in Counselling and
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; B, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Counseling, Clinical psychology, Psychotherapy: counselling, Behavioral Science and Psychology, Social counselling and advice services