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

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(More customer reviews)Irene Pollin puts forth an excellent discussion of the issues related to chronic illness and its impact on patients and their families. She outlines the clinical issues of helping this population in a succinct and insightful manner speaking from personal and professional experience. Her discussion of the administrative issues involved in creating a medical crisis counseling program are relevant, well-developed, and helpful to the practitioner.

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This work describes the personal and social burden created by chronic health conditions, emphasizing the need for specialized medical crisis counselling to support people's adjustment to them. The core of the text is a detailed presentation of Irene Pollin's model, illustrated with numerous cases. Individual, family and group counselling techniques focus on the eight expectable issues surrounding chronic illness: control, self-image, dependency, stigma, abandonment, anger, isolation and death.

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