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Counselling for people with sight loss in the UK: The need for provision and the need for evidence
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- For adults of any age the diagnosis of a visual impairment can be traumatic, and timely referral to informal peer support and/or professional counselling may be both beneficial and appropriate. It is estimated that 45/113 (40%) of UK voluntary organisations for people with sight loss provide professional counselling (n=17) or ‘informal support’ (n=28), such as peer support groups, telephone helplines and befriending.1 However, what is the evidence that these services help people adjust emotionally to their acquired vision loss and the consequences that flow from this? \ud \ud During the spring/summer of 2008, we conducted a follow-up to the scoping survey reported earlier1 to assess the evidence for effectiveness of professional counselling services for people with acquired sight loss. We contacted the 17 counselling services previously identified by Rees1 and further services via Vision 2020 UK, … \ud
- Subjects :
- Counseling
030506 rehabilitation
Sight loss
Referral
genetic structures
Visual impairment
MEDLINE
psy
Peer support
Blindness
03 medical and health sciences
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
0302 clinical medicine
Nursing
Adaptation, Psychological
medicine
Humans
Evidence-Based Medicine
business.industry
Sensory Systems
United Kingdom
Ophthalmology
Needs assessment
030221 ophthalmology & optometry
medicine.symptom
0305 other medical science
business
Needs Assessment
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00071161
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b8c9901a8daabf870fcde5b42702778f