Coping with Chronic Illness and Disability

The first section of this book provides readers with the major theories and conceptual perspectives on coping, with special emphasis on social aspects and models of coping with different types of CID. In Part Two, an array of specific medical conditions is covered. Each chapter supplies a clinical description, current empirical findings on coping, effective medical, physical, and psychological interventions, employment issues, and social concerns. This book includes: Up-to-date information on coping with high-profile conditions, such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, spinal cord injuries, and traumatic brain injury, in-depth coverage of HIV/AIDS, chronic pain, and severe mental illness, coverage of therapeutic modalities adopted for treatment of people with CID, review of the current state of coping theory and research, appendix of instruments frequently used in assessment of coping.

Offers an in-depth discussion of the broad spectrum of stress, trauma, and coping theories Provides a focused outlook at applications of coping models and coping strategies for dealing with CID Presents multiple frameworks for understanding and gaining clinical insights about coping with CID

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Erin Martz, Ph.D., CRC, is an assistant professor and coordinator of the Rehabilitation Counseling program at the University of Memphis. She has been a U.S. Department of State Fulbright Fellow (Russia) and a Switzer Merit Fellow (National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research). Her research interests include psychosocial adaptation to and coping with chronic illness and disability, posttraumatic stress reactions following disability, disability-related employment issues, attitudes toward disability, and international rehabilitation.

Hanoch Livneh, Ph.D., CRC, is a professor and coordinator of the Rehabilitation Counseling program at Portland State University. He is an APA Fellow in the division of Rehabilitation Psychology. His research interests include coping with and adaptation to chronic illness and disability, attitudes toward people with disability, and the measurement of outcomes in rehabilitation.

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I.- An Introduction to Coping Theory and Research.- Psychodynamic and Cognitive Theories of Coping.- Hierarchical Coping: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Coping Within the Context of Chronic Illness and Disability.- The Social Context of Coping.- Reauthoring the Self: Chronic Sorrow and Posttraumatic Stress Following the Onset of CID.- Adaptive Tasks and Methods of Coping with Illness and Disability.- II.- Coping with AIDS: The Challenges of an Evolving Disease.- Coping with Arthritis: From Vulnerability to Resilience.- Coping with Burn Injury: Research Summary and a New Model of~the~Influence of Coping on Psychological Complications.- Coping with Cancer: Findings of Research and Intervention Studies.- Coping with Diabetes: Psychological Determinants of Diabetes Outcomes.- Coping with Epilepsy: Research and Interventions.- Coping and Heart Disease: Implications for Prevention and Treatment.- Coping with Multiple Sclerosis: Considerations and Interventions.- Coping with ChronicPain: A Stress-Appraisal Coping Model.- Coping with Severe Mental Illness: A Multifaceted Approach.- Coping with Spinal Cord Injuries: Wholeness Is a State of Mind.- Coping with Traumatic Brain Injury: Existential Challenges and Managing Hope.