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    Coping with Physical Loss and Disability: A Manual
    Coping with Physical Loss and Disability: A Manual
    Coping with Physical Loss and Disability: A Manual
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    Coping with Physical Loss and Disability: A Manual

    By Rick Ritter

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    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 twenty-five 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.
    "Rick Ritter captures the depth of the emotional pain in the aftermath of physical loss and disability."
    -- Rev. James W. Clifton, Ph.D., LCSW
    "The examples given by the author are very relevant and will help the sufferer relate to similar situations."
    -- S.V. Swamy, Holistic Healer and editor of Homeopathy For Everyone
    It helped me identify feelings I was unaware of, like anger, and I put on paper how lonely I am.
    -- J.B., a reader who has used this book to change her life.
    This workbook is a very good stimulus for focusing on issues crucial for better coping with loss and disability.
    -- Beni R. Jakob, Ph.D, Israeli Arthritis Foundation (INBAR)
    About the Author
    Rick Ritter, MSW, a disabled veteran and social worker, has worked with hundreds of 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLoving Healing Press
    Release dateDec 1, 2006
    ISBN9781615999149
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      Coping With Physical Loss and Disability Author: Rick Ritter, MSW Publisher: Loving Healing Press ISBN: 978-1-932690-18-7 Rjck Ritter, a social worker, veteran, and himself disabled certainly knows about this topic. Written in an easy to comprehend and easy to use workbook style, it's outstanding as a reference tool. All facets of dealing with disability are covered: the physical, spiritual, mental and emotional, as well as the actual practical logistical adjustments that need to be made. Coping with a physical loss and disability is difficult, and attempting to work through the emotional, financial, logistical, family and other areas of change can seem hugely daunting. Knowing where to start can be an immense help. Ritter's workbooks offers just that kind of help, and in an easy to understand series of questions. Through honest answers to these questions, you can learn the best method of dealing with your difficulties. You will learn how to establish a support system of caring professions, family and friends. You will be led through the process of setting your daily schedule, rehabilitation and recovery, along with determining realistic short and long term goals. Additionally, the author includes an extensive list of suggested readings, films on pertinent issues and an excellent guide to therapeutic techniques. Also helpful is the listing of available organizations, foundations and associations, including organizations that support sports for persons with disabilities. A specific section of the workbook is prepared especially for therapists and will prove most helpful to professionals in assisting their clients with disabilities. An outstanding resource for anyone dealing with a disability, professionals in all areas of therapy as well as friends, family and caretakers of the disabled. Highly recommended as a permanent part of the professional's reference library.

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    Coping with Physical Loss and Disability - Rick Ritter

    Coping With Physical Loss and Disability:

    A Workbook

    By Rick Ritter, MSW

    Additional Illustrations by Tyler Mills

    New Horizons in Therapy Series

    What People Are Saying About

    Coping with Physical Loss and Disability

    This workbook is very good stimuli 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

    "People—even mental health professionals—erroneously assume that grief is a reaction limited to the loss of a loved one. But grieving is a far more universal response. Losing one’s bodily integrity or functioning (‘physical loss’) provokes mourning and a distorted self-image. The horror and recoil that disabilities elicit in the healthy only compound the victim’s sense of deprivation and worthlessness.

    This book is a set of guided questions intended to assist the afflicted to heal from such traumas. Based on experience with more than 100 patients, it is straightforward and structured. The progression is logical and transparent. The patient or client is coaxed into facing his or her condition and predicament squarely and honestly and into recruiting all resources—including his family, friends, and social milieu—to fight depression, rage, and helplessness.

    Though slender, the workbook is indispensable to victims of physical loss, their nearest and dearest, medical staff, and psychotherapists or grief counselors."

    —Sam Vaknin, Ph.D., author of Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited

    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 of 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

    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

    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., Clinical Psychologist

    University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Counseling Center

    This workbook helps people understand the grieving that occurs with physical loss and helps readers cope with their decreases in functioning. Additionally, the book asks people to search for positives that have happened, rather than dwelling totally in the negative.

    —Susan Yost, LISW

    "As a person with an acquired disability and a social worker who has experience working with persons who have either acquired or congenital disabilities I see the usefulness and importance of Coping with Physical Loss and Disability: A Workbook. To date I have not seen another tool that can help people who have disabilities become self-aware and adjust to their new lives. This Workbook can help them to see how they still have strengths and abilities and move beyond being disabled to reestablish their self-acceptance and functionality.

    If it had been written two decades earlier, this tool would have been very helpful to me after my motorcycle accident when I was 16. It would have helped me, and many of the clients with disabilities I have worked with over the years, to focus on what I had left instead of wallowing on what I had lost. I will be using this workbook with clients in the future and strongly recommend its use to any person who is working with persons with disabilities.

    —Ian Landry, MSW, RSW

    "Rick Ritter is able to provide us with an insightful road map to

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