A New Approach to Coping
This workbook provides more than 50 questions and exercises designed to
empower those with physical loss and disability to better understand and
accept 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, HIV/AIDs,
and neuro-muscular disorders arising from accidents, injury, and
disease.
About the 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. This workbook is a distillation of the very best questions
and exercises to draw the client towards re-taking control of their
life. He has competed in international events for disabled athletes.
Ritter was also a major contributor to got parts? An Insider's Guide to
Managing Life Successfully with Dissociative Identity Disorder. He
currently resides in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.
Series Info
Coping with Physical Loss and Disability: A Workbook is the second
book in the New Horizons in Therapy Series. This series is specifically
designed to empower clients to work on their own in a therapeutic
setting. As many therapists will state, it's often what the client does
outside the session that can make the biggest difference in recovery.
What People Are Saying
This workbook is a very good stimulus for focusing on issues that are
crucial for better coping with loss and disability. Just putting the
questions with the blanks together is a great opportunity for
self-reflection and might greatly help people raise their consciousness.
As I believe the saying goes 'If you do not help yourself, then no one
will be able to help you.'"
-Beni R. Jakob, Ph.D, Israeli Arthritis Foundation (INBAR)
"Ritter provides a valuable self-care plan for those suffering from the
loss of physical capacity. He also shows readers how to find the mental,
emotional and spiritual encouragement critical to the healing
process."
-Georgiann Baldino, Author and cancer support-group facilitator
"This workbook is more than just a set of exercises, valuable as that
can be. It is an inspiration, a guide, and in some cases may become a
lifesaver. The author himself has suffered severe physical problems and
has surmounted them. So he is not some 'expert' telling you what to do,
but rather a guide who has been there himself. A lot of my work deals
with chronic pain management and this workbook will be
invaluable to my clients."
--Robert Rich, Ph.D., author of Cancer: A Personal Challenge
"Rick Ritter captures the depth of the emotional pain in the aftermath
of physical loss and disability. This workbook format will surely
provide a sense empowerment to those who feel helpless in these
situations."
-Rev. James W. Clifton, Ph.D., LCSW
"I found the workbook useful in addressing the various aspects of the
physical loss. The examples given by the author are very relevant and
will help the sufferer relate to similar situations. 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, Holistic Healer and editor of Homeopathy For Everyone
