Table of Contents

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

Promotional Information

Highly Commended in the Psychiatry Category, BMA Medical Book Awards 2012

Reviews

`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