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Counselling People on Prescribed Drugs

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This practical and comprehensive guide will prove invaluable for all those in the helping professions who are working, or wanting to work, with clients taking prescribed drugs. Describing the uses and limitations of psychotropic drugs, their effectiveness and impact on the counselling process, Diane Hammersley lays down guidelines for assessment, drug withdrawal and the appropriate counselling approaches to consider while clients are still taking drugs or are withdrawing from drug use. She also explores more complex problems - such as overdosing, psychotic episodes and antisocial behaviour - and suggests when and how to counsel and when to refer on. Providing a sound theoretical base and factual information, backed up by useful case examples, the author shows how clients' underlying and often deep-seated problems cannot really be solved until they are drug free and have recovered from their drug use. This clear and accessible book will encourage counsellors to work in this area with more confidence, and will help them provide the support their clients need both during the stages of their withdrawal from prescribed drugs and to get the maximum benefit from the counselling process.
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.
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
`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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