Chronic Illness Workbook Blog
Welcome to The Chronic Illness Workbook Blog! I’m so glad you found us. Whether you’re already familiar with the Workbook and the Fennell Four-Phase Model of chronic illness and trauma, or are new to our work, I think you’ll find information of value here.
For more than two decades, I’ve been working individually with people who are trying to navigate the “new normal” of life with a chronic condition, and also training other medical and mental health professionals whose clients are traveling this difficult path. With this blog, I intend to bring much of the information that I share during my speaking engagements and my weekly counseling and professional development sessions to a wider audience through the Internet.
I’ll be talking a lot about the Fennell Four-Phase Model of chronic illness and trauma, which has been used worldwide since the early 1990s. If you’re not yet familiar with the Fennell Four-Phase Model, you can find a brief overview on my website at www.albanyhealthmanagement.com/ourfocus_ffpm.shtml. In this blog, we’ll get further in depth with the philosophy of the model and its utilization in the treatment of chronic illness with Fennell Four-Phase Treatment (FFPT).
I’ll also bring you insight about chronic illness and trauma, particularly as they relate to health conditions, criminal justice and education. I’ll be culling topics from my speaking engagements and news events as they relate to our work. And I’ll invite my colleagues to contribute to broaden the knowledge we collectively gain.
If you have any questions or comments, I’d like to hear from you. Since medical blogs can be a frequent target for spammers, I’ve implemented some extra security steps, including the requirement for all comments to be approved before they are posted. So if you don’t see your comment appear right away, please don’t worry – it’s probably waiting for me get a free moment to review it so I can post it on the blog.
If you have a question for me that you don’t wish to post on the blog, e-mail me using my contact form.
Thank you for reading this far – please let me know if there are topics you’d like to read about or information you are seeking. I look forward to our dialogue and hope you will, as well.
Tags: chronic illness, counseling, training, trauma
Fennell Four-Phase Model, chronic illness | Patricia Fennell January 18, 2010
