This book aims to enhance communication through counselling skills by:
-Enabling carers to grow aware of their own feelings
-Describing and explaining counselling skills
-Helping carers to develop empathy, genuineness and acceptance
-Deepen and enrich interactions with the patient
-Building relationships between carer and patient
Table of Contents: Counselling Skills in Palliative Care
Foreword
Introduction
What is loss
Needs and wants
Sustaining hope
Palliative care and holistic communication
Counselling skills
More advanced counselling skills
Removing barriers and monitoring interventions
Endings
Bereavement support
Feelings, and other manifestations of grief
Funerals and moving forward
Index