Counselling parents of children with chronic illness or disability / Hilton Davis ; medical advisor, Neil Marlow.
By: Davis, Hilton
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Contributor(s): Marlow, Neil | British Psychological Society.
Material type: 
BookSeries: Communication and counselling in health care.Publisher: Leicester : [Baltimore, MD, U.S.A. : British Psychological Society ; Distributed exclusively in North America by P.H. Brookes Pub.], 1993Description: xi, 132 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 1854330918 ; 185433090X .Subject(s): Chronic diseases in children -- Psychological aspects | Chronically ill children -- Family relationships | Parent and child | Children with disabilities -- PsychologyDDC classification: 618.92 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 618.92 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00016305 | ||
| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 618.92 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00074271 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book aims to help medical staff and carers relate to parents in ways that facilitate their adaptation to their child's illness. The key to this is in effective communication.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-129) and index.
Setting the scene -- Family adaptation to disease -- Helping, aims, relationship and process -- Initiation and exploration -- Helping parents change -- Problem-solving -- Final issues.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 1 Setting the scene
- 2 Family adaptation to the disease
- 3 Helping, aims, relationship and process
- 4 Initiation and exploration
- 5 Helping parents change
- 6 Problem solving
- 7 Final issues