Coping with the Psychological Effects of Illness

Dr. Smith and her co-authors do something rare — they bring genuine clinical expertise (cardiac psychology at the Royal Free) into a format that a patient or caregiver can actually read without a dictionary. The CBT-based tools are evidence-grounded, the case studies make the material feel human rather than clinical, and the short-chapter structure respects that readers dealing with illness may not have long stretches of focus. The NHS framing limits some of its utility outside the UK, but the core strategies travel.