Current Issues in Clinical Psychology - Eric Karas

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Résumé :
Bereavement and The Care of The Dying.- Bereavement and the Care of the Dying - An Introduction.- Counselling Process and Skills.- Terminal Care: Goal Setting - Hospice Philosophy in Practice.- The Development of the Concept of Death and Its Relationship to Communicating with Dying Children.- Working with the Terminally I11.- Social Role Problems in Sexual Relationships.- Social Role Problems in Sexual Relationships - An Introduction.- Biological and Social Aspects of Female Sexual Functioning.- Psychological Aspects of Female Sexuality: The Impact of Feminism.- Father-Daughter Incest: A Model for Treatment.- The Making of The Clinician.- The Making of the Clinician - An Introduction.- Some Psychodynamic Aspects of Helping: A Critical Overview.- What Is a Therapeutic Response?.- Pretending to Care.- Selling Water by the River.- Medical Problems of Women.- Medical Problems of Women - An Introduction.- Psychological and Physical Interactions During the Climacteric.- Menstrual Cycle Disorders: Psychological Theories and the Potential Role of the Clinical Psychologis.- Is Pregnancy Counselling Necessary? The Views of Camden Women.- Psychological Aspects of Breast Cancer Treatment.- Hypnosis: Theory and Practice.- Hypnosis: Theory and Practice - An Introduction.- The Nature of Hypnosis.- Towards a Cognitive (Imagination-based) Theory of Hypnosis.- Clinical Hypnosis: A Description of Some Uses of Hypnosis in Both Behavior Modification and Psychotherpy.- Anchoring and Reframing - An Aid to the Treatment of Phobic Disorders....

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This is the third volume in the series of books based on the Annual Merseyside Course in Clinical Psychology. In common with its predecessors its aim is to present a number of topics of interest to practitioners, researchers, trainers and trainees in the field, with the intent not only to inform but variously also to question and to guide further enquiry. Selection for this volume has taken a somewhat different stance to the previous two. Whereas in former volumes an attempt has been made to cover standard areas of general and scientific interest to psychologists and others in related professions, such as anorexia nervosa, forensic issues, long term care, mental handicap, community psychology, anxiety and de? pression, in this one issues which are of equal relevance but not necessarily of equal prominence in psychological texts, are included. We have not, however, neglected those areas more readily recognized as of major clinical import which are being progressively covered in this series. This year we have the section 'Bereavement and the Care of the Dying'. Although for many this may not be a main focus, it is a subject that few helpers do not encounter either directly or indirectly with their clients. It would be impossible for this subject to not reflect the most human side of the caring professions, and it is perhaps in this field that the objective/subjective dilemma of the clinician can be seen in its most acute form....