Bouncing back : resilience skills for adaptation to injury, aging, illness, and pain

Coping with loss of ability from injury, illness, pain, or just plain aging can be tough. This book offers practical skills and helpful knowledge to build resilience and improve functioning. Chapters cover:* **Self-Management Skills** (how to increase motivation, overcome procrastination, and actually make positive life changes) * **Mood Regulation** (how to deal with sadness and reduced self-worth) * **Stress and Anxiety Management** * **Anger and Frustration Management** * **Relationship Management** (how to keep relationships strong when you need more help and replace lost friendships when you can't do what you used to) * **Memory Management** (how to still keep track of important things if your brain isn't working quite as well) * **Pain Management** (how to deal with chronic pain and still live a good life) Worksheets and exercises follow almost every section to ensure concepts are understood and practiced. "Decline in our physical and mental abilities may be due to injury, illness, or chronic pain, or may simply be the results of normal aging. Sometimes changes in ability are gradual enough and minor enough that we adapt to them effortlessly. In other circumstances, however, these ability changes are more abrupt or more pronounced and pose a real challenge to our coping resources. In Bouncing Back: Skills for Adaptation to Injury, Aging, Illness and Pain, Richard Wanlass shares new research findings and observations of what he has learned in his thirty-five years of helping others adapt to these changes. Bouncing Back presents seven modules associated with changes in ability, including self-management, mood regulation, stress and anxiety management, anger and frustration management, relationship management, memory management, and pain management. Exercises follow almost every section to ensure concepts are understood and practiced. These developed tools provide new resilience skills and strategies to become better at change. They address the specific challenges of the broad and growing population of those learning to adapt to their loss of ability, and should be of aid for the public and for rehabilitation psychologists and neuropsychologists in their practice."--Provided by publisher "Decline in our physical and mental abilities may be due to injury, illness, or chronic pain, or may simply be the results of normal aging. Sometimes changes in ability are gradual enough and minor enough that we adapt to them effortlessly. In other circumstances, however, these ability changes are more abrupt or more pronounced and pose a real challenge to our coping resources. In Bouncing Back: Skills for Adaptation to Injury, Aging, Illness and Pain, Richard Wanlass shares new research findings and observations of what he has learned in his thirty-five years of helping others adapt to these changes. Bouncing Back presents seven modules associated with changes in ability, including self-management, mood regulation, stress and anxiety management, anger and frustration management, relationship management, memory management, and pain management. Exercises follow almost every section to ensure concepts are understood and practiced. These developed tools provide new resilience skills and strategies to become better at change. They address the specific challenges of the broad and growing population of those learning to adapt to their loss of ability, and should be of aid for the public and for rehabilitation psychologists and neuropsychologists in their practice."--Bookdepository.com The book presents clear instructions on coping with changes in functioning associated with injury, aging, illness, and pain. Chapters teach how to restore mood and self-esteem, manage stress and frustration, maintain strong social ties, cope with chronic pain, function efficiently when memory ability declines, and master self-motivation and time management.