Medical Crisis Counseling: Short-Term Therapy for Long-Term Illness

by Irene Pollin, Susan Baird Kanaan

A manual for mental health professionals working with chronically ill patients, who confront serious psychosocial challenges that their physicians may be unable to help them cope with. Medical crisis counseling takes one to 10 sessions to focus on three the disease, the patient's emotional response, and the family's response. Covers both the counseling approach and the administrative aspects of starting and running a medical crisis counseling program. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1995

Reviews

[Gary · Rating 5 out of 5]

An inspiration to me despite having no evidence for the classification of most chronic disease-associated emotions into 8 areas.