Dialectics of Shopping or Counsellors in Health Settings

Dialectics of Shopping

Author: Daniel Miller

Shopping is generally considered to be a pleasurable activity. But in reality it can often be complicated and frustrating. Daniel Miller explores the many contradictions faced by shoppers on a typical street in London, and in the process offers a sophisticated examination of the way we shop, and what it reveals about our relationships to our families and communities, as well as to the environment and the economy as a whole.
Miller's companions are mostly women who confront these contradictions as they shop. They placate their children with items that combine nutrition with taste or usefulness with style. They decide between shopping at the local store or at the impersonal, but less expensive, mall. They tell of their sympathy for environmental concerns but somehow avoid much ethical shopping. They are faced with a selection of shops whose shifts and mergers often reveal extraordinary stories of their own. Filled with entertaining—and thoroughly familiar—stories of shoppers and shops, this book will interest scholars across a broad range of disciplines.

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COUNSELLORS IN HEALTH SETTINGS

Author: Kim Etherington

Focusing on the experiences of counselors themselves, this book is a comprehensive resource for counselors working in heath contexts and for the health professionals who work with them, and may take on counseling roles.

The contributors, who include clients, health care workers, psychiatrists and academics as well as counselors, show how counseling can and should form an integral part of a patient's health care, explaining key theoretical considerations and relevant research and applying these to suggestions for good practice. They also discuss the needs of counselors themselves (for example for supervision and support) and the variety of roles that counselors and health care workers are expected to fulfill.

This book will inform and improve the work of professionals in a range of health care contexts including those working with patients who have cancer, HIV and AIDS or who are having treatment for infertility; and in the fields of young people's sexual health and palliative care.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword	7
	Acknowledgements	9
	Preface: Epilogue for Paula	11
	Introduction	13
1	A wounded healer: From client to counsellor	33
2	Palliative care counselling: Emotional and psychological support from diagnosis to death	49
3	Working in general practice with somatisation of childhood sexual abuse	65
4	Working as a counsellor in an NHS multidisciplinary team	95
5	Counselling children and their families in intensive care	109
6	'Awkward' clients and 'awkward' topics: Young people and sexual health	125
7	Counselling people living with HIV/AIDS	141
8	Working with people with fertility problems: A counsellor's personal experience	161
9	Riding the rollercoaster: A personal account of being counselled about fertility	175
10	Cut, burn and poison: A personal account of breast cancer	191
11	Challenges of counselling in psychiatric settings	209
12	Integrating counselling within the mental health services	227
13	Training and supervision issues for counsellors working in health settings	247
	Contributors	273
	Subject Index	276
	Author Index	284