Psychological care in physical illness

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Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; When there is no psychological care ; Illness, distress and neglect ; Developing a scheme of psychological care ; Informational and educational care ; Emotional care and monitoring psychological state ; Counselling and therapy ; Self-care and preventive support for nurses and therapists ; Overview and dealing with reality ; Epilogue : 'alone with illness' ; Appendices ; Bibliography ; Index

This text is written in a conversational teaching style and demonstrates how to construct a scheme of psychological care in the general hospital setting. In addition to the inclusion of practical outcomes of the developments in professional awareness, there is a new chapter, 'support for yourself', which gives and discusses guidelines for the practice of staff support. This is of particular importance after a decade or more of far reaching organizational change in the health service.