More counsellors than ever before are being employed in medical settings. Yet existing literature on primary care counselling contains insufficient examination of its complexities, and of the variety of its therapeutic applications. Clinical Counselling in Primary Care fills this gap. In the light of the current professionalization of counselling, it looks at the variety of original and creative solutions that practitioners have developed to meet the challenges of this setting. The book examines the broader conceptual framework of clinical counselling in primary care, taking a differentiated postmodern outlook, and establishes a distinction between the different ways of seeing clinical practice in this setting. A range of important clinical issues - such as the therapeutic framework, seeing the clinical work as part of the greater whole, and the need to develop suitable therapeutic models - are discussed.