Managing Chronic Illness Using the Four-Phase Treatment Approach: A Mental Health Professional's Guide to Helping Chronically Ill People - Hardcover

Fennell, Patricia A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471462772 ISBN 13: 9780471462774

Publisher: Wiley, 2003

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

PATRICIA A. FENNELL, MSW, CSW-R, is a researcher and clinician specializing in chronic illness and trauma. She is CEO of Albany Health Management, Inc., an organization that provides counseling, consulting, and professional education; serves as a doctoral training center for the State University of New York; and conducts collaborative, international "Four-Phase Model" research. Her recent publications include the Handbook of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (with Leonard A. Jason and Renée R. Taylor, published by Wiley) and The Chronic Illness Workbook.

From the Back Cover

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.

From the Inside Flap

This book describes a method for managing chronic illness that employs a four-phase model to assess and treat patients. Elements of this model came into focus gradually for Pat Fennell in more than 20 years of clinical experience. Although the effectiveness of matched interventions and the lack of efficacy of mismatched interventions, described in this book, have yet to be demonstrated empirically, her clinical experience and that of people trained in this approach initially support the assertion.

The book clearly stipulates his purposes and gives a clear view on the clinical experiences of the author and her approach in dealing with chronically ill. All chapters explain clearly how this model was developed and how it can be put into practice.

Even for scientists, this book will be readily usable due to the extensive references Patricia offers. My clinical experience supports this model and many CFS patients already benefited from this approach. Patricia's book will be the first step towards an integrated approach offered to the chronically ill and their environment.

Elke Van Hoof
Doctor in Psychological Sciences
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Belgium

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471462772
• ISBN 13: 9780471462774
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464