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.
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Kenneth Sharoff, PhD, has been practicing psychotherapy for thirty years and is currently in private practice in the Phoenix, Maryland, area. He received his BA from the University of Colorado, his MA from the University of Denver, and his PhD from the University of Maryland. He is the originator of cognitive coping therapy, reviewed as "the most important contribution in the development and maturing of cognitive behavior therapy in the past twenty years." He is the author of Cognitive Coping Therapy and lives in Baltimore with his wife and two children.
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This book rests on the basic premise that people feel good about themselves, function well in the world, and have fewer interpersonal and intrapersonal problems when they know how to cope. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
exoneration training, certainistic thinking, irrational policy belief, helplessness tolerance, nonsurrender strategy, disfigurement neutralization, optimistic attribution style, frustration accommodation, constructive mourning, many medical patients, alienation phase, cognitive coping therapy, identity adulteration, executive beliefs, disappointment accommodation, terminal illness patients, aloneness moment, activation management, postcrisis phase, body accommodation, desired outcome state, dream crush, entitlement thinking, agonistic tendency, operational beliefs New!
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This book rests on the basic premise that people feel good about themselves, function well in the world, and have fewer interpersonal and intrapersonal problems when they know how to cope. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
exoneration training, certainistic thinking, irrational policy belief, helplessness tolerance, nonsurrender strategy, disfigurement neutralization, optimistic attribution style, frustration accommodation, constructive mourning, many medical patients, alienation phase, cognitive coping therapy, identity adulteration, executive beliefs, disappointment accommodation, terminal illness patients, aloneness moment, activation management, postcrisis phase, body accommodation, desired outcome state, dream crush, entitlement thinking, agonistic tendency, operational beliefs New!
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- Cognitive Coping Therapy by Kenneth Sharoff in Front Matter, and page 7
- Experimental Psychology by R.B. Burns in Back Matter
- Abnormal Psychology: Current Perspectives by Lauren B. Alloy in Back Matter
- Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher in Back Matter
- Coping Skills Manual for Treating Chronic and Terminal Illness (Springer Series on Rehabilitation) by Kenneth Sharoff on page 3
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- Planned Group Counseling: An Alternative Group Method for Reluctant Chemically Dependent and Psychiatric Patients by Anthony N. Biancoviso PhD in Back Matter
- Coping Skills Manual for Treating Chronic and Terminal Illness (Springer Series on Rehabilitation) by Kenneth Sharoff on page 1
- Educating Nurses for Leadership by Harriet Feldman PhD RN FAAN in Back Matter
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