Counseling individuals with life-threatening illness [[electronic resource] /] / Kenneth J. Doka

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782885103321
• Autore: Doka Kenneth J
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Springer, c2009
• ISBN: 1-281-96420-4; 9786611964207; 0-8261-1732-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.02/8
• Soggetti: Critically ill - Counseling of; Critically ill - Psychology; Death - Psychological aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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