Coping Skills Therapy for Managing Chronic and Terminal Illness and Manual Set

Download or read book Coping Skills Therapy for Managing Chronic and Terminal Illness and Manual Set written by Kenneth Sharoff, PhD and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004-03-15 with total page 288 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 model (CCT) of care into the medical arena, and identifies 3 distinct phases in the treatment protocol: Crisis Consolidation, and Normalization. Each phases constitues 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 there are more than 35 patient handouts available in pdf form that can be downloaded directly from our website. This workbook and accompanying patient handouts are designed to stand alone, or supplement the author's text. Download PATIENT HANDOUTS Here.