During challenging times, it can really help to have sufficient personal time with a compassionate, knowledgeable physician who is experienced in family medicine and has specialized training in counseling — who listens to you, and offers caring support and expert guidance. 

1. Medical Counselling

2.  During challenging times, it can really help to have sufficient personal time
with a compassionate, knowledgeable physician who is experienced in
family medicine and has specialized training in counseling — who listens
to you, and offers caring support and expert guidance.

3.  There are a number of different forms of counselling, some of which are
used in specific circumstances.
 In all forms of counselling the relationship between counsellor and client
is of great importance.
 Counsellors sometimes work in general practices to treat patients with
mental heath problems in primary care.

4. •
Types of counselling:
 Problem-solving counselling
 This is a structured and systematic approach to resolving problems that are
linked to stressful circumstances.
 It involves the patient identifying and listing problems and then considering
what practical ways exist to solve or alleviate the problem. These solutions are
tried and then reviewed.
 Interpersonal counselling
 Problems in relationships can be viewed under the headings of loss,
interpersonal disputes, role transitions and interpersonal deficits.
 A problem-solving approach is adopted to encourage the patient to try out
alternative ways of coping.
 This has been effectively used for patients with minor mood disorders.

5. Psychodynamic counselling
 In this technique there is more emphasis on past experience and
unconscious processes as the mainspring of current behaviour.
 The patient's emotional reactions to the counsellor and situation are an
indicator of the nature of problems in other relationships.
 This approach has not been as thoroughly evaluated as those above.

6. Specific uses of counselling:
Counselling has been used in the following situations:
 Counselling to relieve acute distress:
 Counselling for late effects of trauma, including post-traumatic
stress disorder:
 Counselling for relationship problems:
 Risk counselling:
 Bereavement counselling:
 Mild-to-moderate depression:
 Generalized anxiety and panic disorder.
 Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
 Psychosomatic conditions - chronic pain, chronic fatigue, and
gastrointestinal disorders such as irritable bowel. Also, some
gynecological syndromes such as premenstrual syndrome and
chronic pelvic pain.
 Health promotion:
 Chronic or terminal disease:

7. • Techniques
 Nondirective counselling:
 Problem-solving therapy:
 Cognitive techniques (such as challenging negative automatic thoughts)
and behavioural techniques (such as activity scheduling and behavioural
experiments):
 Behavioural therapy:
Seeks to solve problems and relieve symptoms by changing
behaviour and the environmental factors which control behaviour.
Cognitive behavioural therapy:
 Interpersonal therapy:
 Psychodynamic counselling:

8. Benefits of counsellors:
 Counselling is associated with significantly greater clinical
effectiveness in short-term mental health outcomes compared to
usual GP care in the UK, but provides no additional advantages
in the long term.
 Participants were satisfied with counselling.
 Although some types of healthcare utilisation may be reduced,
counselling does not seem to reduce overall healthcare costs.

9. Why Spero?
Spero Healthcare has evolved around the idea of coexisting with
hospital and consultants for a patient who is ill enough to need
additional health care, but stable enough to be discharged from
the hospital. Understanding the current need and challenges
faced by the patient,
Spero healthcare have come up with systematic approach to
address all the above challenges by developing technology
solution, professional enhancement through training, integration
of services through dedicated healthcare management and
robust processes.

10. Services Offer
By Spero
• Physician (Doctor)assistant services
• Physiotherapy services
• Healthcare assistant services (24 Hours)
• Home Healthcare equipment
• Nurse Services
• Medical Transportation
• Respiratory Services
• Lab Service

11. Spero Healthcare
Office No.5 Bhosale House Apts, Karve Road.Pune-411004
WebSite
www.sperohealthcare.in