Family Manual, A manual for families of persons with pain [Spiral-bound]

Penney Cowan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1998

Chronic pain is a family affair. The pain person's suffering manifests itself within the family unit, creating additional problems. Members of the family must deal with their own "pain" and stress resulting from the circumstances.

The ACPA Family Manual is designed to help family members manage their lifestyle changes and difficulties due to living with a person in chronic pain and begin to rebuild a mutually supportive family unit.

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About the Author

Penney Cowan is Founder and Executive Director of the American Chronic Pain Assocation. After completing a pain management program at the Cleveland Clinic, she realized that it is possible to live a full life in spite of chronic pain. It was her desire to maintain her wellness and share her knowledge with others that lead her to starting the ACPA in 1980. Today there are support groups in every state and eight foriegn countries. She has written a number of self-help manuals on managing chronic pain that are uesd in the ACPA support groups.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 149 pages
• Publisher: American Chronic Pain Association (September 1, 1998)
• ISBN-10: 0967387825
• ISBN-13: 978-0967387826
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,094,750 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Dissappointed, February 2, 2005

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suesmini "suesmini" (MN, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Family Manual, A manual for families of persons with pain (Spiral-bound)

I found this book to be a big dissappointment. It gives no ideas for the family or chronic pain sufferer on alternative solutions such as other activities the chronic pain person and the family can still do together without the pain sufferer bringing on more pain. Sure the family has to sacrific a lot with a chronic pain sufferer, but there are alternative solutions. If the family member(s) reading this book are not depressed already about his/her situation this book will certainly causes more depression. Plus it talks about things that the family members and chronic pain sufferer already are aware of. There is nothing new...it talks about what families go through in which we already know. I found it just to be a money maker for the author. This book shows no compromises for the family and pain sufferer. It's definitely not an uplifter and like I said it offers no solutions or compromises for the family or pain sufferer that there are other alternative activities family can do together and still have fun and maintain relationships. Don't buy it. It's a waste of money.