Ch. 1. Coping Skills Approach -- Ch. 2. Strategies and Skills -- Ch. 3. Phases in Adaptation -- Ch. 4. Assimilation of Suffering -- Ch. 5. Discomfort and Frustration Management -- Ch. 6. Identity Management -- Ch. 7. Self-Support Training -- Ch. 8. Uncertainty Tolerance -- Ch. 9. Bitterness Disposal Training -- Ch. 10. Body Accommodation and Disfigurement Neutralization -- Ch. 11. Meaning-Making -- Ch. 12. Limitation Management
Summary
"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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-195) and index
