Coping Skills Therapy for Managing Chronic and Terminal Illness (Springer Series on Rehabilitation)

This practical, hands-on book offers a broad range of skills to overcome the problems medical clients face with disease onset. The author has expanded his Cognitive Coping Therapy (CCT) model of care into the medical arena, and identifies 3 distinct phases in the treatment protocol: Crisis, Consolidation, and Normalization. Each phase constitutes a distinctive set of tasks and each task a set of coping skills. This book details how to implement these skills, with sample case illustrations throughout. Special attention is given to specific illness trajectories and their stresses.

Sharoff, a practicing psychotherapist and the originator of cognitive coping therapy (CCT), explains how to use the coping skills method to help clients cope with chronic and terminal medical conditions resulting form disease processes or accidents. He identifies three distinct phases in the treatment protocol and details a set of tasks and coping skills for each phase. Sample case illustrations demonstrate how to help clients gain these coping skills. Special attention is given to specific illness trajectories and their stresses. A companion book by the author, Coping Skills Manual for Treating Chronic and Terminal Illness, is also available. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

"This practical, hands-on book offers a broad range of skills to overcome the problems medical clients face with disease onset. The author expands his Cognitive Coping Therapy (CCT) model of care into the medical arena, and identifies 3 distinct phases in the treatment protocol: Crisis, Consolidation, and Normalization. Each phase constitutes a distinctive set of tasks and each task a set of coping skills. This book details how to implement these skills, with sample case illustrations throughout. Special attention is given to specific illness trajectories and their stresses."--BOOK JACKET This book rests on the basic premise that people feel good about themselves, function well in the world, and have fewer interpersonal and intrapersonal problems when they know how to cope.