Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Illness and Disability

This book is a guide for clinicians who deal with chronic illness in a variety of forms, whether in a hospital or an office setting. It focuses on the main treatment modes of CBT and a more generally integrative type of therapy and aims to provide theoretical orientations and review treatment modalities and the ways in which they can be utilized. The illnesses addressed include chronic pain, fatigue, sleep dysfunction, and digestive dysfunction. The book includes a section on special problems associated with chronic illness and discusses ways to deal with the specific symptoms of high profile chronic illness.