The Practice of Counselling in Primary Care

This book offers practical guidance for counsellors in primary care settings, exploring the complex dynamics of health care teams and providing a guide to the safe and effective practice of counselling in primary health care contexts.

`Useful for the insights about introducing a new service into the general practice environment′Family Practice

Counselling practitioners in primary care settings have unique circumstances to contend with. This book offers practical guidance for managing the issues these counsellors face, exploring the complex dynamics of health care teams and providing a guide to the safe and effective practice of counselling in primary health care contexts.

The book highlights potential sources of difficulty for this group, from needing to maximize therapeutic contact while using time-limited techniques, to working with a wide range of patients and problems and relying increasingly on evidence-based practice.

Foreword - Graham Curtis Jenkins
Introduction - Robert Bor and Damian McCann
Setting Up a Counselling Service - Carole A Trowbridge
A Biopsychosocial Approach to Counselling in Primary Care - John Davy
Doctors, Counsellors and Their Patients - Susan Hopkins and Mary O′Callaghan
Intraphysic and Interpersonal Issues
Deeper Issues in Collaboration - Gilly Pembroke
Avoiding Pitfalls and Managing Internal Boundaries
Managing Referrals - Teresa Schaefer, Jenny Chesshryre and Susan Kendal
Managing Patient Flow - Carole Waskett
Waiting and Absences
Confidentiality in a Team Setting - Carole Waskett
Doing Therapy Briefly in Primary Care - Christine Parrott
Theoretical Concepts
Doing Therapy Briefly in Primary Care - Christine Parrott
Clinical Applications
The Competent Patient - Sheila Gill
Counselling and the Use of Psychotropic Medication - Jo Sexton
Training in Counselling in Primary Health Care - Gilly Pembroke
Supervision in Primary Care Counselling - Damian McCann
Evaluating Counselling in Primary Health Care - Peter du Plessis and Robert Bor