Pathways through Long-Term Health Conditions

PAVILION PUBLISHING & MEDIAISBN: 9781803884233

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Text by Donald Moss, Angele McGrady
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320

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Pathways through Long-Term Health Conditions is a self-help guide for people living with a chronic illness, based on a Lifestyle Medicine approach and the Pathways Model which has been developed by the authors over many years. Long-term conditions - chronic problems such as cancer, heart disease, depression, arthritis and IBS - constitute the greatest treatment challenge of our times. Many of us will suffer from such problems in our lifetimes, and by and large we do not have much control over this. Where we do have a measure of power, however, is in our lifestyle choices and the personal decisions that we make. Focusing on this aspect of long-term illness, Your Pathway Through Chronic Illness is a hopeful and uplifting book that empowers readers to take action on their own behalf. Through clear explanations and enlightening case examples, the authors explain how to apply the three-step Pathways Model of self-care (deciding to change - mastering skills - more sophisticated strategies) in order to help individuals take better care of themselves, and to feel more active and empowered in partnership with professional providers.

Don Moss is a clinical health psychologist and psychophysiologist. He is Dean of the Graduate College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences at Saybrook University in Pasadena, California. For over five decades, his passion has been to help people with medical illnesses to help themselves, manage their illnesses, reduce their suffering, and live more fully despite illness. ANGELE McGRADY is a professor at the University of Toledo Medical Center, Ohio. She has extensive experience teaching behavioural science, and she has designed programs to prevent burnout and build resiliency in health care providers. Her clinical practice focuses on applying the Pathways Model to patients with complex chronic medical and emotional issues.
Section 1: The Pathways Model 1. Living Fully with Chronic Illness 2. A Mind-Body-Spirit Approach to Self-Healing 3. Steps to Wellbeing - The Pathways Mode Section 2: Stories and Common Chronic Conditions 4. Gaining Control and Making Decisions on Health Habits-Type 2 Diabetes 5. Putting Heredity into Perspective - High Blood Pressure and Heart Disease 6. Embracing Nature and Recovering Inner Peace -Cancer 7. Dealing with Difficult Relapses and Setbacks - Headache 8. Recovering from Loss of Control, Shame and Isolation-Irritable Bowel Syndrome(IBS) 9. Managing Pain, Recovering Activity, and Improving Mood - Osteoarthritis 10. Coming Out of the Tunnel of Despair - Depression 11. Mastering Terror of the Unknown - Anxiety 12. Integrating the Past and Living Fully in the Present - Trauma Section Three: Putting it All Together 13. Completing your Pathways Assessment 14. Setting Level One Goals 15. Setting Level Two Goals 16. Selecting Level Three Treatment Section Four: Resources Appendix A - Instructions for Self-Care Skills Appendix B -Helpful Apps, Videos, Books, Audio Recordings and Websites Appendix C - Worksheets for Healing Pathways

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