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Counseling individuals with life-threatening illness
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""With characteristic clarity, Doka draws on the classic and contemporary literature as well as his own pedagogy and practice in death and dying to offer orienting concepts for the whole spectrum o...
""With characteristic clarity, Doka draws on the classic and contemporary literature as well as his own pedagogy and practice in death and dying to offer orienting concepts for the whole spectrum of care people may require when illness intrudes into their lives. For each phase of the illness trajectory...he offers intelligent attention to the problems and prospects people confront, and in countless examples of actual clinical situations he brings to life the concepts that inform compassionate care."". From the Foreword by Robert A. Neimeyer , PhD. University of Memphis. This holistic, family-c
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- Creator
- Kenneth J. Doka
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 2nd ed
- New York, N.Y. : Springer Pub. Co., [2014]
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (322 p.)
- ISBNs
- 0826195814, 9780826195814, 0826195822, 9780826195821
- OCLC
- ocn856869966, ocn845225020
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Historical perspectives on dying and illness -- Effective professional caregivers : seven sensitivities -- The skilled counselor -- Responses to life-threatening illness -- Understanding the illness experience -- The prediagnostic phase : understanding the road before -- Counseling clients through crisis of diagnosis -- Counseling clients in the chronic phase of illness -- Counseling clients in recovery -- Counseling clients in the terminal phase -- Counseling families during an life-threatening illness