Authors: John Lees
ISBN-13: 9780415179546, ISBN-10: 0415179548
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: March 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Although more counsellors than ever before are being employed in a medical setting, existing literature on primary care counselling contains insufficient examination of its complexities and of its various therapeutic applications. Clinical Counselling in Primary Care fills this gap. In the light of the current professionalization of counselling, it looks at the variety of original and creative solutions that practitioners have developed to meet the challenges of this setting. While highlighting the still-considerable differences between each practice, it takes the view that, if counsellors can work with the healing power inherent in the setting, then they have an important tool for therapeutic change. The book examines the broader conceptual framework of clinical counselling in primary care and establishes a distinction between the different ways of seeing clinical practice in this setting. A range of important clinical issues -- such as the therapeutic framework, seeing the clinical work as part of the greater whole and the need to develop suitable therapeutic models -- are discussed.
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Introduction | 1 | |
1 | The postmodern context of counselling in general practice | 6 |
2 | The culture of general practice and the therapeutic frame | 19 |
3 | Holding the dance: a flexible approach to boundaries in general practice | 43 |
4 | Counselling within a time limit in general practice | 61 |
5 | A holistic approach to working in general practice | 77 |
6 | The matrix at work: a post-Jungian approach to general practice counselling | 95 |
7 | The generalized transference in general practice | 112 |
8 | Counselling for patients with severe mental health problems in the general practice setting | 129 |
9 | Working with different models: adapting to the context | 146 |
10 | Inter-disciplinary collaboration for group therapy | 160 |
11 | Evaluating clinical counselling in primary care and the future | 174 |
Index | 195 |