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

Medical Crisis Counseling: Short-Term Therapy for Long-Term Illness by Pollin, Irene. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780393701951.

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 areas: the disease, the patients emotional response, and the familys 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.