Islamic counselling and psychotherapy is a discipline that is vaguely defined. Information that is available on this topic is often limited in quantity and perspective to form the theoretical basis necessary to constitute a model of intervention for Islamic Counselling. Indeed in discussions with social service practitioners this lack of a coherent Islamic counselling methodology is frequently ...

Facing decreased public funding, Australian and United States universities actively recruit full-fee paying students from Asia. However there are questions regarding the impact of the reduced funding upon the development of appropriate counselling services to meet the international students’ needs. Tinsley’s Expectations about Counselling Scale was employed to quantify the counselling expectati...

The placebo effect is a fascinating and complex phenomenon, and may well account for much of the effectiveness of many medical therapies, such as pain medications and antidepressants. While health professionals have long debated the role that placebos may play in health care, the counselling profession has devoted less attention to the placebo effect in counselling, despite claims that it may a...

Recent Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) guidelines on screening procedures for antibody to human T cell lymphotropic virus type III (HTLV-III) have stressed the importance of providing adequate counselling for patients before and after testing. The establishment of a national acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) counselling training unit has enabled large numbers of Nationa...

Doctors are well positioned to provide physical activity (PA) counselling to patients. They are a respected source of health-related information and can provide continuing preventive counselling feedback and follow-up; they may have ethical obligations to prescribe PA. Several barriers to PA counselling exist, including insufficient training and motivation of doctors and improvable, personal PA...

The aim of the current study was to describe patient-perceived outcomes of a counselling intervention for cancer patients. An individual counselling service was established at a cancer clinic in Sweden. The service offered counselling intervention which consisted of short-term crisis and supportive counselling focused on meeting individual patients' expectations and needs. Of the 72 patients wh...

BACKGROUND Weight loss has been shown to influence the health outcomes of type 2 diabetes patients. Providing weight management counselling to diabetes patients may help them adopt appropriate weight management behaviours to lose weight. This study determined the association between self-reported receipt of healthcare professional's weight management counselling and the weight management behavi...

Genetic counselling in psychiatry aims at facilitating mentally ill patients and their relatives to make informed choices after understanding what is known about the genetics of a given mental disorder This area of practice is a recent development in mental health care. This study surveyed the attitudes and practices of Indian psychiatrists towards genetic counselling. Fifty-nine out of 150 ran...

Sir, Harvey et al (March Journal) undertook a randomized controlled trial and health economic evaluation of counselling in primary care. They found no difference in functional or mental health outcome at four months between subjects referred to counselling or those given usual care by their GP. They also found no clear difference in the cost effectiveness of the two interventions.' However, the...

AIMS Widely varying estimates of treatment effects have been reported in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) investigating the efficacy of behavioural interventions for smoking cessation. Previous meta-analyses investigating behavioural interventions have important limitations and do not include recently published RCTs. We undertook a meta-analysis of RCTs to synthesize the treatment effects of...