| A
pioneering book to help maximize the quality of life for
chronically ill patients.
Written
by a leading authority on chronic illness treatment
and management, Managing Chronic Illness Using the
Four-Phase Treatment Approach provides evidence-based
practice guidelines for clinicians to help their clients
with debilitating health problems embrace a new "normal,"
understand the cyclical nature of their illness, and
function at the highest level possible.
Patricia
Fennell’s groundbreaking model for understanding
chronic illness identifies and describes four broad
phases experienced by the chronically ill: crisis, stabilization,
resolution, and integration. Using a broad array of
case histories, Fennell vividly illustrates what clients
need at each phase and how to assess and respond to
them compassionately. Fennell also suggests how clinicians
may best use their own changing experiences in their
work to help clients transition through the four phases.
The
goal of the "Four-Phase Model" is to maximize
a client’s quality of life without offering false
hope for a cure, making it an effective treatment strategy
for diverse client populations, including people with
physiological diseases, patients whose lives are being
prolonged by modern medicine, and people who suffer
from addiction, post-traumatic stress syndrome, intractable
pain, and post-rape and abuse conditions.
Complete
with detailed treatment protocols for documenting a
client’s symptoms and quality of life at each phase, Managing Chronic Illness Using the Four-Phase Treatment
Approach is a highly practical book for everyone
working with chronically ill clients. |
