Coping Skills Therapy for Managing Chronic and Terminal Illness

Offers a range of skills to overcome the problems medical clients face with disease onset. Expanding the Cognitive Coping Therapy model (CCT) of care into the medical arena, this book identifies 3 phases in the treatment protocol: Crisis, Consolidation, and Normalization. Each phases constitutes a set of tasks and each task a set of coping skills.

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This practical, hands-on book offers a broad range of skills to overcome the problems medical clients face with disease onset. The author expanded his Cognitive Coping Therapy model (CCT) of care into the medical arena, and identifies 3 distinct phases in the treatment protocol: Crisis, Consolidation, and Normalization. Each phases 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. The manual is a practical guide that identifies treatment issues and problems that can arise when implementing key coping skills. It provides therapists with assessment instruments and more than 35 patient handouts available on the accompanying CD. This workbook and accompanying CD is designed to stand alone, or supplement the author's text.