Counselling People on Prescribed Drugs / Edition 1

by Diane Hammersley

Overview

‘This book is useful and interesting... counsellors will enhance their knowledge and skills in working with people taking prescribed medicine' - Drug and Alcohol Review

‘Hammersley explores the uses and limitations of drug therapy for patients suffering from depression, anxiety and related disorders... Although many therapists welcome psychopharmacology for their clients, there are still many who feel that drug treatment is a stop-gap measure at best. This book provides an examination of the issue and offers some good advice about helping clients withdraw from drugs and cope with their realities drug-free' - Contemporary Psychology

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803988873
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/12/1995
Series:	Therapy in Practice , #13
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Diane Hammersley is an independent chartered counselling psychologist with a wide experience of working with clients who are withdrawing from medication and of teaching counsellors, doctors and nurses about benzodiazepine withdrawal methods.

Table of Contents

The Purpose of Prescribing
The Counselling Perspective
Assessment and Setting Goals
Drug Withdrawal and Learning Alternatives
Maintaining the Change
The Return to Reality
Some Complex Areas

Editorial Reviews

‘This book is useful and interesting... Prescribers will be given an opportunity to view the counselling perspective, and counsellors will enhance their knowledge and skills in working with people taking prescribed medicine' - Drug and Alcohol Review

‘Hammersley explores the uses and limitations of drug therapy for patients suffering from depression, anxiety and related disorders... Although many therapists welcome psychopharmacology for their clients, there are still many who feel that drug treatment is a stop-gap measure at best. This book provides an examination of the issue and offers some good advice about helping clients withdraw from drugs and cope with their realities drug-free' - Contemporary Psychology

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