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Evaluation of a counselling intervention in primary schools

Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 1999
The emotional needs of children within a school setting may fall between health and educational service provision. There has been a growth of school based counselling provision and this study reports on an evaluation of counselling provided through a charitable organization far primary school children, The study was set up to explore the differences on
Abram Sterne, Lorraine Sherr
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Intervention with parental smokers in an outpatient pediatric clinic using counseling and nicotine replacement.

Pediatrics, 2003
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the feasibility of implementing a smoking cessation intervention for parents at the time of the pediatric visit. METHODS A prospective cohort of smoking parents whose child was seen in an outpatient pediatric practice was offered ...
J. Winickoff, V. J. Buckley, J. Palfrey, J. Perrin, N. Rigotti   +4 more
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Intentional Forgiving as a Counseling Intervention

Journal of Counseling & Development, 1998
Forgiveness has been represented in counseling literature as an effective means of promoting personal and relational development. Despite this, a concise set of guidelines to direct counselors in the use of forgiveness has yet to be proposed. The author presents theological and counseling understandings of forgiveness and delineates contexts in which ...
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Telephone Counseling Interventions With Caregivers of Elders

Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 1994
1. The use of the telephone in therapy has been documented in the care of disabled persons and persons with cancer and can be used with other populations. Telephone counseling is a feasible addition to the repertoire of assistance programs available. 2.
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Nutritional counselling: an intervention for HIV‐positive patients

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2006
Aim.  This paper reports an investigation of the effectiveness of nutritional counselling as an intervention to improve health outcomes for HIV‐positive patients in Ghana, West Africa.Background.  In Ghana, like many developing countries, more patients with HIV and AIDS die because of their poor nutritional status than from the disease itself. With the
Tabi, Marian M., Vogel, Robert L.
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Physician training for patient-centered nutrition counseling in a lipid intervention trial.

Preventive Medicine, 1995
BACKGROUND We examined the effect of a 3-hr training program on physicians' lipid intervention knowledge, attitudes, and skills. The program teaches physicians skills to conduct a brief dietary risk assessment and provide patient-centered counseling to ...
J. Ockene, I. Ockene, M. Quirk, J. Hébert, G. Saperia, R. Luippold, P. Merriam, Sarah Ellis   +7 more
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A self-help intervention for African American smokers: tailoring cancer information service counseling for a special population.

Preventive Medicine, 1998
BACKGROUND African Americans remain a critically underserved group for smoking cessation interventions. This study tested the effectiveness of a tailored, culturally sensitive intervention for African American smokers who called the NCI Cancer ...
C. Orleans, N. R. Boyd, Ruth Bingler, C. Sutton, D. Fairclough, Debra Heller, M. Mcclatchey, J. Ward, C. Graves, L. Fleisher, Susan Baum   +10 more
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Crisis Intervention and Health Counseling: An Overview

School Health Review, 1970
(1970). Crisis Intervention and Health Counseling: An Overview. School Health Review: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 15-17.
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Physical Activity Counseling for Healthy Adults as a Primary Preventive Intervention in the Clinical Setting: Report for the US Preventive Services Task Force

, 1989
Physical activity has been associated with the prevention and control of several medical conditions that are major causes of death and disability in the United States.
S. S. Harris, C. Caspersen, G. H. DeFriese, E. Estes   +3 more
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Paradoxical Intervention in a College Counseling Center

Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 1993
Paradoxical interventions have been widely and effectively used as primary therapeutic tools in brief counseling modalities. Thus the use of paradoxical techniques in college counseling centeres is becoming more attractive because of the increased emphasis on short-term, problem focused therapy. However, before successful use of these techniques can be
Angela Beaston, Bud A. McClure, Kathryn Kurdt   +2 more
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