Author: Ritter, Rick

This workbook provides more than 50 questions and exercises designed to empower those with physical loss and disability to better understand, accept, and transform their ongoing processes of loss and recovery. The exercises in Coping with Physical Loss and Disability were distilled from ten years of clinical social work experience with clients suffering from quadriplegia, paraplegia, amputation, cancer, severe burns, lupus, HIV - AIDs, hepatitis, and neuro-muscular disorders arising from accidents, injury, abuse, and disease.

Exercises engage the emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of the client to increase ability and acceptance in critical areas of functioning including self-care, support systems, coping skills, scheduling their life, identity, and dealing with past vs. future, feelings, beliefs, and identifying positive outcomes.

Author Rick Ritter, MSW, a disabled veteran and social worker, has worked with more than a hundred clients who have experienced physical loss and disability.

What people are saying about Coping with Physical Loss and Disability

"I recommend the workbook to those who are trying to heal from past traumas or to those who are trying to help their near and dear heal. "
- S.V. Swamy, Homeopathy For Everyone

"This workbook is a very good stimulus for focusing on issues that are crucial for better coping with loss and disability."
-Beni R. Jakob, Ph.D, Israeli Arthritis Foundation (INBAR)

"This workbook is a tremendous resource that is practical and easy to use. The author shows his connection with this material in a way from which we can all benefit."
-Geneva Reynaga-Abiko, Psy.D., University of Illinois, Counseling Center

Selected by the National Clearinghouse of Rehabilitation and Training Materials

Spanish Language Edition also available (1932690190)