Coping Skills Therapy for Managing Chronic and Terminal Illness

Download or read book Coping Skills Therapy for Managing Chronic and Terminal Illness written by Kenneth Sharoff, PhD and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004-02-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.