@article{ref1,
title="Crisis intervention: an experimental study of the effects of a brief period of counselling on the anxiety of relatives of seriously injured or ill hospital patients",
journal="British journal of medical psychology",
year="1979",
author="Bunn, T. A. and Clarke, A. M.",
volume="52",
number="2",
pages="191-195",
abstract="This study was designed to examine the effects of anxiety levels, as measured by the Gottschalk & Gleser (1969) and the Viney & Westbrook (1976) content analysis scales, of a brief period of supportive counselling of relatives who arrived at a hospital emergency admitting ward with a seriously ill or injured patient. Verbal samples were taken for analysis from the subjects before and after a period of counselling (or a period of no counselling for the control group). The results showed that the initial anxiety levels for subjects in both groups was very high. For both the psychoanalytically oriented Gottschalk & Gleser anxiety scale and the Viney & Westbrook scale of cognitive anxiety there was a decrease in the level of anxiety for the counselled group compared with the non-counselled group. The results showed that such crisis intervention in hospitals for relatives who accompany patients to the hospital can reduce their very high levels of diffuse and generalized anxiety.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0007-1129",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}