Coping Skills Manual for Treating Chronic and Terminal Illness

by Kenneth Sharoff PhD

Overview

This 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 more than 35 patient handouts available by download from our website. This workbook and accompanying forms are designed to stand alone, or supplement the author's text, Coping Skills Therapy for Managing Chronic and Terminal Illness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826122742
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	04/23/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	88
File size:	285 KB

About the Author

Kenneth Sharoff, PhD, has been practicing psychotherapy for thirty years and is currently in private practice in the Phoenix, Maryland, area. 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.”

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Table of Contents

Manual:

1. Introduction
2. Theory of Pathology and Health
3. Strategies for Disease
4. The Cognitive Restructuring Option
5. Assessment of Adjustment
6. Treating the Response to Suffering
7. Identity and Self-Esteem Management
8. Tolerance Skills
9. Accommodation Skills
10. Treatment of Bitterness

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