Coping Skills Therapy for Managing Chronic and Terminal Illness

This practical handson book offers a broad range of skills to overcome theproblems medical clients face with disease onset. The author has expanded hisCognitive... » 

This practical handson book offers a broad range of skills to overcome theproblems medical clients face with disease onset. The author has expanded hisCognitive Coping Therapy CCT model of care into the medical arena andidentifies 3 distinct phases in the treatment protocol Crisis Consolidationand Normalization. Each phase constitutes a distinctive set of tasks and eachtask a set of coping skills. This book details how to implement these skillswith sample case illustrations throughout. Special attention is given tospecific illness trajectories and their stresses. «