Health Care Needs Assessment: The Epidemiologically Based Needs Assessment Reviews (Living Therapies Series)

This book provides a new realism in understanding the world of alcohol counselling. It uses dialogue to enable the reader to appreciate the nature of counselling a person with an alcohol problem through the application of person-centred counselling theory. It provides deep insights into what goes on in counselling sessions and how this links into the counsellor's own supervision. It is essential reading for all counselling trainers, supervisors and trainees, provides useful approaches and frameworks for other caring professions, and includes many valuable insights for clients themselves. 'The intention of Radcliffe's new Living Therapy series is to enable the reader to enter imaginatively into the therapeutic processes and thereby to acquire an experiential knowledge which can seldom be obtained through the more conventional text-book. This book succeeds impressively in this aim'- Professor Brian Thorne, Emeritus Professor of Counselling, University of East Anglia and Co-founder, The Norwich Centre 'This book is full of useful information for those working with alcohol problems, on when and how to discuss drinking patterns and on how to convey information on alcohol and its effects.' - Alistair Sutherland, Director, Drug and Alcohol Services, South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Trust 'This tremendous contribution to professionals working in the addiction field is bound to have an effect in decreasing stigma towards individuals with alcohol problems by the examples and problems so well described by the author in this book. A 'must read' for all professionals counselling persons with alcohol problems!'- Professor Dana Murphy-Parker, Professor of Nursing, Arizona Western College, USA; Chair of the Education Committee for the International Nurses Society on Addictions