Psychotherapy for Neuropsychological Challenges
By (author) A. S. Aniskiewicz
Publication date:
25 May 2007Length of book:
188 pagesPublisher
Jason Aronson, Inc.ISBN-13: 9780765703897
This book is a unique and timely addition to the literature for it provides approaches for dealing with the cognitive and emotional consequences of common neurological diseases. There is growing awareness of the impact that psychological factors and the treatment of those factors have on the disease process itself. The attitude of mind and therapeutic strategies described in the book are informed by mindfulness-based acceptance and intervention approaches that are gaining increasing recognition. This work is the first to offer clinicians help with addressing the psychological aspects of severe neurological disorders.
A book that takes us back to the future. As medicine travels with ever-increasing speed to discover the perfect biomedical cure for the many varieties of human illness, it moves further and further away from the impact that these illnesses have onthe human condition. The word suffering seems to have lost its original meaning and has come to imply that someone has this or that condition. Yet suffering is what brings patients to caregivers and each person suffers in a unique way that is entirelytheir own. The loss of control over one's body and one's actions causes one person to despair while another may become more determined than ever before. It is not the pill that ultimately makes the difference in a person's life or their suffering—it is what we as caregivers 'wrap' around it that does. This book is a tour de force. It is a true return to the biopsychosocial model that pioneers like George Engel spoke of fifty years ago. This book addresses not only the neuroanatomical and neuropsysiological deficits that stem from neurological illnesses, but also the impact of these deficits on the coping ability of the individual. This book tells us how to help the individual overcome these deficits and to develop effective coping strategi