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    Counselling skills in palliative care / John Davy and Susan Ellis.

    • Title:Counselling skills in palliative care / John Davy and Susan Ellis.
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    • Author/Creator:Davy, John, 1965-
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Ellis, Susan, 1966-
    • Published/Created:Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 2000.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Palliative treatment.
      Terminally ill--Counseling of.
      Terminal care.
    • Medical Subjects: Counseling--methods.
      Palliative Care.
      Terminal Care.
    • Description:183 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
    • Summary:The authors discuss the role of counselling skills as used by professionals, and those in training, working with patients and families of patients for whom treatment is no longer aimed at curing an illness.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-181) and index.
    • ISBN:9780335203123 (pb)
      0335203124 (pb)
      9780335203130 (hb)
      0335203132 (hb)
      0335703124
    • Contents:Ch. 1. Introduction
      Ch. 2. Joining the palliative care system
      Ch. 3. Empowering patients, finding goals and resources
      Ch. 4. Living with loss
      Ch. 5. Symptom management
      Ch. 6. Anger
      Ch. 7. Palliative care and children
      Ch. 8. Dying and death itself
      Ch. 9. Bereavement support
      Ch. 10. Caring: the privilege and the price
      Ch. 11. Developing counselling skills
      Ch. 12. Concluding remarks
      App. A. Using family genograms.
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