Effective Short-Term Counselling within the Primary Care Setting: Psychodynamic and Cognitive-Behavioural...

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Valerie Garrett

Effective Short-Term Counselling within the Primary Care Setting

Psychodynamic and Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy Approaches

Valerie Garrett

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English

Karnac Books
16 June 2010

Counselling & advice services; Cognitivism, cognitive theory; Psychotherapy

This book covers two distinct yet related topics: the primary care setting and the counselling carried out within it, and it can be dipped into or read straight through.

Part One, using psychodynamic and systems theory, explores the holding environment of primary care, the interpersonal relationships within the primary care team, and other variables affecting counselling in a medical organisational setting.

Part Two takes the counsellor through the 'how' of using psychodynamic and Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) approaches within short-term contracts in this setting. Case studies and scenarios are given to illustrate these. The counsellor is guided through assessing the patient's counselling needs either within a psychodynamic or CBT model or to formulate a 'tailor-made' short-term contract, using elements drawn from psychodynamic, CBT, and supportive counselling.

By: Valerie Garrett
Imprint: Karnac Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781855757516
ISBN 10: 1855757516
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 16 June 2010
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

How to Use this Book , Introduction , The Primary Care Setting: Finding Your Feet at the Coalface , Introduction to Part I , Setting the scene of primary care counselling against the backdrop of a rapidly-evolving NHS service , Valuing what you bring to the primary care setting as an experienced or newly graduated counsellor , Introduction and induction into the GP surgery , Finding your place in the medical organizational family , Medical model vs. psychological model , The primary care counsellor's support systems , Whose needs are being met? , The Practice of Counselling and the Impact of the Setting Theory and Practice: Working at the Coalface , Introduction to Part II , Time and how we use it: assessing what is appropriate for the patient , Assessment , Use of psychotropic drugs, their probable impact upon counselling, and their side effects , The contract , Approaches to different categories of patient and presenting problem , Waiting lists, endings, and referring on , Endnotes

Valerie Garrett has twenty-five years' experience in counselling and has worked as a primary care counsellor for five years. She now supervises counsellors working in that setting. Throughout this time she has encountered human suffering across every part of the socio-economic spectrum, age and personality type.

Reviews for Effective Short-Term Counselling within the Primary Care Setting: Psychodynamic and Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy Approaches

This thoughtful and comprehensive book, written by a counsellor with a good deal of experience in the field, will provide a useful resource for the many counsellors attached to GP surgeries, covering as it does valuable information on the practice setting and on how to adapt psychodynamic and CBT approaches to the short-term counselling which is usually on offer. Primary care counselling is one of the most accessible psychological therapies available free to a wide range of people, which makes it especially important that the counsellors who provide it have access to books which help them to develop a clear focus for their work.