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Inside every chronic patient is an acute patient wondering what happened
Author(s) -
Brown, F. Marcus
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.10091
Subject(s) - psychotherapist , psychology , psychosocial , intervention (counseling) , session (web analytics) , compassion , population , psychiatry , medicine , environmental health , world wide web , computer science , political science , law
This In Session describes how chronic illness erodes connections, eludes definition, and reduces one's ability to manage daily life. The contributors compassionately and competently provide an array of perspectives, pragmatic techniques, and caveats. This concluding article seeks to integrate the articles in this issue and to deepen the clinician's ability to meet the needs of a chronically ill individual requesting psychotherapy. Particular emphasis is given to three models of psychotherapy with chronically ill individuals, care giving at the end of life, and compassion fatigue found in professionals working with this population. Multiple case examples are provided to illustrate psychotherapy and psychosocial intervention strategies. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol/In Session 58: 1443–1449, 2002.