Erin Martz, Ph.D., CRC, is an assistant professor and coordinator of the Rehabilitation Counseling program at the University of Memphis. She has been a U.S. Department of State Fulbright Fellow (Russia) and a Switzer Merit Fellow (National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research). Her research interests include psychosocial adaptation to and coping with chronic illness and disability, posttraumatic stress reactions following disability, disability-related employment issues, attitudes toward disability, and international rehabilitation.

Hanoch Livneh, Ph.D., CRC, is a professor and coordinator of the Rehabilitation Counseling program at Portland State University. He is an APA Fellow in the division of Rehabilitation Psychology. His research interests include coping with and adaptation to chronic illness and disability, attitudes toward people with disability, and the measurement of outcomes in rehabilitation.

The first section of this book provides readers with the major theories and conceptual perspectives on coping, with special emphasis on social aspects and models of coping with different types of CID. In Part Two, an array of specific medical conditions is covered. Each chapter supplies a clinical description, current empirical findings on coping, effective medical, physical, and psychological interventions, employment issues, and social concerns. This book includes: Up-to-date information on coping with high-profile conditions, such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, spinal cord injuries, and traumatic brain injury, in-depth coverage of HIV/AIDS, chronic pain, and severe mental illness, coverage of therapeutic modalities adopted for treatment of people with CID, review of the current state of coping theory and research, appendix of instruments frequently used in assessment of coping.

Part I

1. An Introduction to Coping Theory and Research
Hanoch Livneh and Erin Martz 2. Psychodynamic and Cognitive Theories of Coping
Cynthia Radnitz and Lana Tiersky 3. Hierarchical Coping: Conceptual Framework for Understanding Coping within the Context of Chronic Illness and Disability
Julie Chronister and Fong Chan 4. The Social Context of Coping
John Kosciulek 5. Chronic Sorrow and Posttraumatic Stress Following the Onset of CID
Susan Roos and Robert Neimeyer 6, Adaptive Tasks and Methods of Coping with Illness and Disability
Rudolf Moos and Charles J. Holahan Part II 7. Coping with AIDS: The Challenges of an Evolving Disease
James Walkup and Laura Cramer-Berness 8. Coping with Arthritis: From Vulnerability to Resilience
Bruce Smith and Jeanne Dalen 9. Coping with Burns Injury: Research Summary and a New Model of the Influence of Coping on Psychological Complications
James Fauerbach, Melissa G. Bresnick and Michael T. Smith 10. Coping with Cancer: Findings of Research and Intervention Studies
Sharon Manne 11. Coping with Diabetes: Psychological Determinants of Diabetes Outcomes
Julie Wagner and Howard Tennen 12. Coping with Epilepsy: Research and Interventions
Malachy Bishop and Chase Allen 13. Coping with Heart Disease: Implications for Prevention and Treatment
Kymberly K. Bennett and Jennifer L. Boothby 14. Coping with Multiple Sclerosis: Considerations and Interventions
Kristy McNulty 15. Coping with Pain: A Stress-Appraisal Coping Model
Beverly Thorn and Kim Dixon 16. Coping with Severe Mental Illness: A Multifaceted Approach
Shlomo Kravetz and David Roe 17. Coping with Spinal Cord Injury: Wholeness is a State of Mind
Erin Martz and Hanoch Livneh 18. Coping with Traumatic Brain Injury: Existential Challenges and Managing Hope
Joseph Hinkebein and Renee Stucky Appendix of Commonly-Used Coping Instruments