| Summary: | The purpose of this study was to explore the experience
of health care professionals working in a palliative care
unit, who participated in a brief, client centered
counselling intervention. Eight health care professionals,
representing both the nursing and allied workers, received
between six to twenty individual counselling sessions with a
counselling psychologist. This study utilized a
phenomenologically based, qualitative approach to
investigate participants' experience of the counselling
sessions and their perspectives on its impact in their work
and personal lives over a six month period. Participants'
interpretations were grouped into nine themes: Expectations
of counselling, if and how expectations were met, areas of
stress in the workplace, enabling factors for participants
to attend counselling, main issue addressed in counselling,
changes in personal or home life, changes in work
environment and interactions with colleagues, changes in job
satisfaction and performance, and additional comments
regarding the counselling experience. Results indicated
that most participants reported positive changes occurring
intrapersonally, interpersonally, and in their levels of job
satisfaction and job performance. Since this approach
appears to merit further attention, implications for
practice and further research are discussed. === Education, Faculty of === Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of === Graduate
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