Doka, Kenneth J.

Counseling individuals with life-threatening illness [electronic resource] / Kenneth J. Doka. - 2nd ed. - New York, N.Y. : Springer Pub. Co., [2014] - xix, 302 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
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Critically ill--Counseling of.
Critically ill--Psychology.
Death--Psychological aspects.
Terminal care.


Electronic books.

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616.02/8