Coping With Chronic Pain: A Guide To Patient Self-Management - Softcover

"A well-presented and informative guide that is very useful for practicing clinicians who treat patients with pain problems....An especially positive aspect of this book is the use of clear, well-written case examples that contain actual instructions for patients....This is a book I plan to own and recommend to other clinicians." --Charles P. McCreary, Ph.D. "This is a very clear and detailed description of a self-management approach on treating chronic pain. Clinicians will appreciate the numerous case descriptions and treatment guidelines. The authors also offer unique discussions on the organization of a chronic pain management program, and about patients who require alternative management strategies." --Lawrence Bradley, Ph.D. "This is a good. sound review on the problem of treating patients with chronic pain. The authors present their viewpoint clearly and have obviously had considerable experience in the field. The book is written for the health care provider interested in patients with chronic suffering syndrome." --Benjamin Crue, M.D. "Hanson and Gerber have produced the book which anyone wanting to work within this area will need to read. This would be the best investment any professional interested in chronic pain could make." --"Journal of Psychosomatic Research" "Hanson & Gerber explicitly counter these myths and advocate a multidisciplinary approach which emphasizes patient self-management. They have set out to enable the reader to benefit from their wealth of practical experience of working with people in chronic pain....Hanson & Gerber have managed to maintain a personal focus throughout this book and offer an optimistic but also realistic vision of working with people in chronic pain....They do offer...a means of enabling the reader to learn useful new ways of working with people in chronic pain and how to introduce their own ideas without getting into arguments with patients." --"Health Psychology Update" This is one of a small number of pain treatment books that provides meaningful detail on specific treatment techniques and the strategies for using these techniques in a treatment program....This volume is both a useful review of the evolution of treatment techniques for chronic pain, and a practical how-to-do-it guide to the management of this difficult problem.' --"General Hospital Psychiatry" This outstanding book is a must for any health care professional working with patients in inpatient chronic pain facilities....Much of the program's contents are applicable to an outpatient setting as well.' --"Lifeline" A highly recommended selection for the medical reference shelf, COPING WITH CHRONIC PAIN is very useful for the lay reader as well as the medical student, nurse, paraprofessional, and practicing physician.' --"The Wisconsin Bookwatch" As advocates for a viable, legitimate alternative [to the medical model], the authors do themselves proud in presenting a very persuasive case for a biopsychosocial approach. Their affective representation in just 217 pages and nine chapters deserves your attention.' --"Feedback" A well-presented and informative guide that is very useful for practicing clinicians who treat patients with pain problems....An especially positive aspect of this book is the use of clear, well-written case examples that contain actual instructions for patients....This is a book I plan to own and recommend to other clinicians.' --Charles P. McCreary, Ph.D. This is a very clear and detailed description of a self-management approach on treating chronic pain. Clinicians will appreciate the numerous case descriptions and treatment guidelines. The authors also offer unique discussions on the organization of a chronic pain management program, and about patients who require alternative management strategies.' --Lawrence Bradley, Ph.D. This is a good. sound review on the problem of treating patients with chronic pain. The authors present their viewpoint clearly and have obviously had considerable experience in the field. The book is written for the health care provider interested in patients with chronic suffering syndrome.' --Benjamin Crue, M.D.

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.