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Title:
Counselling parents of children with chronic illness or disability
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Communication and counselling in health care
Publication Information:
Leicester : British Psychological Society, 1993
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9781854330901
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This book aims to help medical staff and carers relate to parents in ways that facilitate their adaptation to their child's illness. The key to this is in effective communication.


Author Notes

Hilton Davis is Professor of Child Health Psychology at the United Medical and Dental Schools at Guy's Hospital, London, UK.


Table of Contents

1 Setting the scene
2 Family adaptation to the disease
3 Helping, aims, relationship and process
4 Initiation and exploration
5 Helping parents change
6 Problem solving
7 Final issues