A therapeutic approach to bereavement counselling

Article Abstract:

It is important for nurses to understand grief, since research has not only uncovered a link between bereavement and increased morbidity and mortality, but shown that bereavement counselling can reduce morbidity. The rising number of deaths taking place in hospital rather than at home means that nurses are increasingly caring for bereaved people. Furthermore, 1/3 of all deaths in hospital are sudden and unexpected, a factor which can precipitate abnormal and complicated grief reactions in the bereaved. The Wessex model of grief counselling can prove helpful.

Health aspects, Services, Grief, Bereavement

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Implications of client-centred counselling for nursing practice

Article Abstract:

American humanistic psychologist and psychotherapist Carl Rogers first introduced the concept of client-centred counselling based on educational therapy under which patients are provided with enough information to make their own informed decisions. Rogers also believed that people are inherently good and will choose to make good decisions if they are given the opportunity, although critics claim this perception of human behaviour is too naive. Nurses can provide patients with information but can also offer advice on the appropriate course of action to take.

Analysis, Health counseling, Client-centered psychotherapy, Client-centered therapy

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Counselling drug users

Article Abstract:

A drug dependency unit at the Bethlem Royal Hospital provides HIV education within a health education package. HIV awareness is also promoted and clients are encouraged to undergo pre-test counselling which ensures that clients are better informed of their rights. Counselling includes questions about the client's sharing behaviour and establishes the degree of risk in the injecting process.

Drug abuse counseling

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