Doka, Kenneth J., <br/><br/>
Counseling individuals with life-threatening illness /Kenneth J. Doka. 

 - Second edition. 
 - New York, N.Y. :  Springer Pub. Company,  (c)2014. 
 - 1 online resource (xix, 302 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> ""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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780826195821 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>016508018  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Critically ill--Counseling of.<br/>Critically ill--Psychology.<br/>Death--Psychological aspects.<br/>Terminal care.<br/>Hospice care.<br/>Families--Health and hygiene.<br/>Counseling<br/>Attitude to Death<br/>Critical Illness--psychology<br/>Family Health<br/>Terminally Ill--psychology
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>R726  / .C686 2014