Recrafting a Life - Coping with Chronic Illness and Pain (Hardcover)

Chronic pain and chronic illness can be overwhelming for both patients and the clinicians who treat them. Patients must navigate an unfamiliar psychological and physiological landscape with few (initially) recognizable resources. These challenging circumstances, in turn, require that the clinician develop an integrated skill set that addresses the patient's painful physical symptoms while effectively dealing with the feelings of hopelessness, defeat, and fear that inevitably accompany the experience of chronic pain and illness.
Recrafting a Life: Solutions for Chronic Pain and Illness directly meets this complex challenge by presenting a new treatment approach that creatively incorporates powerful Ericksonian hypnosis interventions with effective solution-focused therapy techniques. Resource focused and rooted firmly in self-care theory, this integrative approach enables the clinician to effectively reduce physiological pain and suffering while successfully addressing the psychological issues associated with a chronic condition.
Engaging the reader with the transformational metaphor of Robinson Crusoe , the authors describe the five stages of recrafting a life through which patients pass in the journey to transcend their chronic condition. The clinician can utilize the dynamics of this framework to construct therapeutic strategies that best fit each stage, substantially improving treatment outcomes. The rich case examples that illustrate this process are accompanied by specific hypnotic and clinical interventions.
Readily accessible for both clinicians and their patients, the clinical material in Recrafting a Life: Solutions for Chronic Pain and Illness is supplememted by a virtual "self-care toolkit," offering interactive scales and inventories, solution-finding interview interventions, self-hypnosis protocols, self-care experiments, and healing homework assignments.

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General

Imprint:	Brunner-Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2002
First published:	2002
Authors:	Charles Johnson • Denise Webster
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-1-58391-356-7
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Anaesthetics > Pain & pain management
LSN:	1-58391-356-4
Barcode:	9781583913567

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