Hestia’s Overnight Hotel Counselling Service for survivors of the Grenfell fire was set up in response to a disaster and therefore most ‘normal rules’ counselling boundaries could not apply. There is gap literature regarding times disasters ethical dilemmas that come with it. The deficit on this issue especially great UK.
 Using thematic analysis, study explores how nine counsellors experi...

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is preparing materials on subjects of relevance to HIV infection and AIDS, the causes and consequences of the epidemic, and best practices in AIDS prevention, care and support. A Best Practice Collection on any one subject typically includes a short publication for journalists and community leaders (Point of View); a technical summary of t...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Counsellors provide psychological support, appropriate education and coping skills to persons affected by adverse events. Counselling of leprosy patients is essential to enable them to cope with perceived stigma as well as managing severe enacted stigma at home, place of work or elsewhere. Professional counselling was instituted at the Leprosy Mission Community Hospital ...

this article provides an overview of international developments in the area of infertility counselling. it informs about the development of international organizations and relevant professional standards and describes the need to make counselling accessible to all patients, especially those who experience great distress or display previous vulnerability. whereas in previous years counselling fo...

BACKGROUND The organized Cervical Cancer Screening Programme (CCSP) in Italy might represent an occasion to deliver smoking cessation (SC) counselling to women attending the Pap test examination. Evidence of effectiveness of physical activity (PA) promotion and intervention in adjunct to SC counselling is not strong.Objective of the SPRINT trial was to evaluate the effectiveness of a standard S...