Calvary University

 Faculty of Counselling

Health Promotion and Health Counseling
    — Effective Counseling and
          Psychotherapeutic Strategies

2nd Edition

Len Sperry, Judy Lewis,
Jon Carlson, Matt Englar-Carlson
0-205-34420-8
Paperback
360 pages
2005

Brief Description

When clients need to make health changes, health professionals can confidently turn to this definitive source for assessment and psychotherapeutic change strategies.

As more clients and patients require help in making health behavior changes, both mental health professionals and other health care professionals are increasingly recognizing their need to incorporate health counseling skills in their professional practice repertoire. Similarly, the emerging practice of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and the Surgeon General's directive in Healthy People 2010 for health counseling to be a core component in the training of all health professionals suggests that health counseling has come of age.

Counselors, psychotherapists and other health professionals looking to enhance their health counseling skills can confidently turn to Health Promotion and Health Counseling, Second Edition, for clinical input on the assessment, treatment, and prevention of such common health concerns as weight control, smoking cessation, sexual performance difficulties, substance abuse, chronic disease, chronic pain, and sleep difficulties.

Features

Emphasizes assessment and treatment strategies in order to increase the clinician's knowledge and skill base for these ever-increasing health care conditions (Chs. 4-11).

Includes case material throughout: Most chapters provide one or more case vignettes; shorter cases in Chapters 4-11 illustrate intervention methods; and an extended case in Chapter 11 illustrates assessment and intervention methods.

New To This Edition

Includes a new chapter on the evolution of the field of health counseling and the emergence of five types of health counseling (Ch. 1).

Because of the increasing incidence and prevalence of chronic diseases, there is expanded coverage of the assessment and treatment of chronic disease, including the levels and phases of chronic illness (Chs. 4-11).

Highlights the cultural factors that influence assessment and interventions of the client's experience of health-related issues, and encourages the tailoring of assessment methods and health counseling interventions to incorporate these multicultural aspects. (Cultural aspects are addressed in all chapters; assessment and intervention issues are emphasized in Chs. 4-11).

Provides current references as well the names, addresses and/or web sites for specialty reference books, organizations and self-health groups related to particular health issues (all chapters).

Contents

Preface.

I. THE BASICS OF HEALTH COUNSELING.

1. Health Promotion and Health Counseling: An Overview.
2. Health Behavior and Health Counseling: Theories, Models and Concepts.
3. The Process of Health Counseling: Skills and Strategies.

II. HEALTH COUNSELING IN ACTION.

4. Weight Control.
5. Smoking Cessation.
6. Drug and Alcohol Abuse.
7. Exercise.
8. Sleep.
9. Sexual Health.
10. Chronic Pain.
11. Chronic Disease and Other Illness-Related Concerns.

Appendix: Health Counseling Videotapes.

Index.

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