BACKGROUND A hospital admission provides an opportunity to help people stop smoking. Providing smoking cessation advice, counseling, or medication is now a quality-of-care measure for US hospitals. We assessed the effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions initiated during a hospital stay. METHODS We searched the Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Review Group's register for randomized and quas...

OBJECTIVES To determine the extent of postdiagnosis counseling and to characterize behavior before and after diagnosis of hepatitis C infection. METHODS We interviewed 133 persons diagnosed with hepatitis C in Wyoming from 1999 to 2001. RESULTS Approximately two thirds of cases received counseling at the time of diagnosis. Older and symptomatic patients were more likely to receive counselin...

While traditional "talk" therapies remain at the foundation of counseling, the use of expressive and creative arts in conjunction with these methods can often deepen the healing process as well as expedite diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Integrating the Expressive Arts into Counseling Practice is designed to provide readers with an understanding of the ways in which expressive arts counsel...

-In counseling, the role of non-verbal communication such as expression, spacing, physical contact is very important. Roleplaying is one of useful methods of counseling. According to circumstances, physical contact is used in order to that roleplaying may be more effective. When counselors want to use physical contact in counseling, they can use a virtual contact instead of physical one without...

Objective: Because of various types of psychological distress, cancer patients are encouraged to attend outpatient psycho-oncological and psychosocial counseling. The aim of this prospective study was an analysis of the impact and success of existing counseling resources. Methods: All cancer patients who had applied at a central counseling center were given a standardized questionnaire (FBK-R23...

OBJECTIVE Because of various types of psychological distress, cancer patients are encouraged to attend outpatient psycho-oncological and psychosocial counseling. The aim of this prospective study was an analysis of the impact and success of existing counseling resources. METHODS All cancer patients who had applied at a central counseling center were given a standardized questionnaire (FBK-R23...

While traditional "talk" therapies remain at the foundation of counseling, the use of expressive and creative arts in conjunction with these methods can often deepen the healing process as well as expedite diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Integrating the Expressive Arts into Counseling Practice is designed to provide readers with an understanding of the ways in which expressive arts counsel...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to provide insight into Dutch midwives' self-evaluation of prenatal counseling for anomaly screening in real life practice and, the degree of congruence of midwives' self-assessments with clients' perceptions and with observed performance. METHODS Counseling sessions were videotaped. We used the QUOTE(prenatal) questionnaire to have each midwife (N = 20) and her cli...