Counselling Parents of Children with Chronic Illness or Disability

This book aims to help medical staff and carers relate to parents in ways that facilitate their adaptation to their childa s illness. The key to this is in effective communication.

ISBN	1854330918	Volumes	1
ISBN13	9781854330918 (What's this?)	Co_publisher	Paul H. Brookes, USA
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd	Weight (grammes)	218
Imprint	BPS Blackwell	Published in	Oxford
Format	Paperback	Series editor	David, Hilton, Hilton, Davis
Publication date	29 Jan 1993	Series title	Communication & Counselling in Health Care S.
Library of Congress	RJ380.D38	Height (mm)	215
DEWEY	361.323	Width (mm)	141
DEWEY edition	DC20	Spine width (mm)	10
Pages	144	Academic level	Undergraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate

	Foreword
	Preface to the series
1	Setting the Scene	1
	What do I mean by counselling?	3
	Help for whom?	4
	Who are the helpers?	7
	The plan of the book	8
2	Family Adaptation to Disease	10
	Effects of disease and disability	12
	Understanding adaptation: a framework	14
	The crisis of diagnosis	17
	Specific areas of change and problems	18
3	Helping: Aims, Relationship and Process	35
	Aims of helping	35
	The partnership model	37
	The expert model: a contrast	40
	The process of helping	41
4	Initiation and Exploration	53
	Fundamental attitudes	53
	Basic skills	59
	The first meeting	69
5	Helping Parents Change	78
	Breaking bad news	78
	Challenging skills	82
	More general strategies: construct theory	91
6	Problem-Solving	101
	Goal-setting	102
	Planning action	106
	Implementing plans	109
	Evaluation of care	110
	Useful strategies	113
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