Loneliness, Stress and Well-Being

A Helper's Guide

G a Kupshik, G. A. Kupshik, P. M. Murphy (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

168 Seiten

1992
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-07032-4 (ISBN)

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Provides a simple method of assessing the degree and nature of loneliness and includes practical strategies for helping clients to manage their social problems. The book will be of particular benefit to counsellors and psychologists.

Loneliness can be a terrible experience. Yet, surprisingly counsellors, therapists and professional helpers are rearely taught how to help their clients manage loneliness. Written specially for professional helpers, Loneliness, Stress and Well-Being provides a thorough background to the theories concerning the nature of loneliness and a basic introduction to its management. It describes a simple method of assessing the degree and nature of loneliness and includes invaluable practical strategies for helping clients to manage their social problems.

G A Kupshik, G. A. Kupshik, P. M. Murphy

List of figures and tables, Preface, Part I. Theoretical perspectives, 1. What is loneliness? Defining a model, 2. Why people need people, 3. Inter-personal and intra-personal differences in social needs, 4. Loneliness and social support theory, 5. Loneliness and health, 6. Measuring loneliness, Part II. Practical approaches, 7. Helping people to overcome loneliness, 8. Teaching new social rules, 9. Maintaining and deepening relationships, 10. Managing the thoughts that promote loneliness, Appendices, References, Index

Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-07032-5 / 0415070325
ISBN-13	978-0-415-07032-4 / 9780415070324
Zustand	Neuware