In 2003 the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) commissioned a systematic review of the research evidence relating to counselling older people. This paper reports on some of the findings of this review, particularly those which address the effectiveness of counselling with this population. Electronic searches of the research literature spanned 6 databases and were suppl...

The present study was conducted to assess the attitudes and behaviors of practicing community pharmacists towards patient counselling and use of patient information leaflets in the state of Karnataka. Convenient sampling method was adopted to collect the responses with the help of self-completion questionnaires. A total of 258 practicing community pharmacists in the age group of 22-60 y of both...

This study examined the effectiveness of stages of change-based counselling for exercise delivered by nurses in four primary care centres. Two-hundred and ninety-four subjects enrolled, recruited from patients attending 30-min health checks. The average age of participants was 42.4 years (SD = 15.1) and 77% were female. Participants completed a questionnaire assessing stage of exercise adoption...

BACKGROUND There is limited information in Ireland on the attitudes of GPs and practice nurses to lifestyle counselling and the strategies or approaches they use. Furthermore, there is no national framework or resources to support the systematic and uniform provision of lifestyle counselling. OBJECTIVES To explore the views of Irish primary health care practitioners about behavioural risk fac...

BACKGROUND Specialist counselling services for critical care are in their infancy. Both patients and their families report problems during recovery that would benefit from counselling. The ICU counselling service was established in 2005 using two nurse counsellors. AIM To benchmark the new ICU counselling service against other established services and to explore differences in the case-mix. ...

The use of counselling as a way of responding to people in distress has grown rapidly in recent years. While it has proven popular with many people, the rapid growth of counselling has also generated some disquiet and numerous questions. Confusion abounds in many quarters about what counselling is and to what extent it works. The position is complicated by the fact that there is considerable de...

This paper explores the background to epilepsy in terms of medical impact and psychosocial effects. The argument that information and counselling may be central to the person with epilepsy is explored. The evidence from primary research published between 1990 and 2000 investigating the information and counselling needs of people with epilepsy is appraised and synthesized. This paper seeks to an...

Fundamental changes in the workplace across all countries in recent times call for a contemporary response from career counselling theorists and practitioners as well as researchers and clients. An approach is needed that will enable career counsellors to equip clients with the necessary skills to respond to these changes – a positive career counselling approach. The article focuses briefly on ...

There is mounting evidence that nutrition plays an important role in the aetiology and management of many diseases affecting Australians. Nutrition counselling provides a strategy for not only reducing patient suffering, but also for reducing the health care costs associated with these illnesses. At the forefront of providing nutrition counselling to Australians are General Practitioners (GPs) ...

A sample of 106 senior house officers who had graduated from Nottingham University in 1987 was surveyed about their experience of and need for careers guidance, performance appraisal, and stress counselling. Of the 80 who replied, a quarter had received no careers guidance and a quarter no feedback about their work performance. Many reported having had difficulties in their post, but few had re...