Part One: The Psychology of Cancer
1: What people with cancer feel
2: A cognitive model of adjustment to cancer
3: Can cognitive behaviour therapy improve quality of life?
4: Can psychological therapy affect duration of survival?
Part Two: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for People with Cancer
5: Overview of therapy
6: The therapy session
7: Experiencing and expressing emotions in adjuvant psychological
therapy
8: Behavioural techniques
9: Cognitive techniques I: Basic cognitive techniques
10: Cognitive techniques II: Working with anxiety and
depression
11: Applications of cognitive and behavioural techniques to common
problems
12: Cancer in context: Working with underlying beliefs and
assumptions
13: Working with couples
14: Cognitive behaviour therapy in advanced and terminal
illness
15: Prolonged grief disorder among bereaved primary carers
16: Group therapy
17: Concluding remarks
Appendices
1: Coping with Cancer
2: Thinking Errors
3: Weekly Activity Schedule
4: Thought Record
5a: Mental Adjustment to Cancer Scale
5b: Courtauld Emotional Control Scale
5c: Cancer Coping Questionnaire
5d: Cancer Concerns Checklist
References
Highly Commended in the Psychiatry Category, BMA Medical Book Awards 2012
`Review from previous edition The book is very well written and may
be appropriate not only for psychotherapists, but also for
physicians who want to improve their psychosomatic skills.'
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
`I would . . . highly recommend this book to those working in
palliative care. It was easy to read, of manageable length, and
provided many useful examples of cognitive and behavioural
techniques that those working in palliative care would be able to
adopt immediately into clinical practice.'
Palliative Medicine, 17
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