title: Counselling: how should it be defined and evaluated?
abstract: Counselling is becoming an increasingly popular approach among nurses working with people with mental health problems. This paper explores some basic questions about counselling. What is it? How does it differ from other conversations and from psychotherapy? Does it actually work? If counselling is to become widely used in the nursing profession, these issues need to be addressed.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Burnard
mesh_terms: D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*