Dr Fran Smith - Coping with the Psychological Effects of Illness: Strategies to manage anxiety and depression

Dr Fran Smith is a counselling psychologist and is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council and the British Psychological Society. Fran has worked in a variety of NHS and private settings in both clinical and teaching capacities. She has trained and practised using a variety of therapeutic models; however, she tends to draw most from cognitive behavioural, mindfulness-based, and acceptance and commitment therapy models. She is an advocate of dynamic, time-limited therapy that is focused collaboratively and specifically on the needs of the client(s). In addition to her work with a range of clients with a broad variety of presenting problems, Fran specializes in helping people to adjust to living with acute and chronic health conditions, including cardiac problems, diabetes, chronic pain, cancer, HIV disease, autoimmune conditions and respiratory conditions. She developed and ran a psychology service for a cardiology department in a major London hospital, and also has experience of working within plastic surgery and diabetes departments. Her research interests lie in adjustment to change in physical health and change in appearance.

Dr Carina Eriksen is a chartered and Health and Care Professions Council-registered counselling psychologist with an extensive London-based private practice for young people, adults, couples and families. She is a consultant with Dynamic Change Consultants and an accredited member of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, having specialized at the Institute of Psychiatry. Carina has managed a team of psychologists, cognitive behavioural therapists and psychotherapists in the NHS for several years and was previously an external supervisor at The Priory. She has extensive experience consulting in clinical and organizational settings in the UK and Europe. She is also a consultant at Colet Court, the preparatory school for St Pauls School for Boys, London, and works closely with several other British and international schools in London. She is actively involved in research, with a specific interest in the topic of work stress and worklife balance, anxiety, panic, fear of flying, the psychological effects of physical health problems and the psychological effects of living with cancer. Carina and her colleagues are often invited to present these topics at conferences in the UK and abroad.

Professor Robert Bor is a director of Dynamic Change Consultants (www.dcclinical.com), and Lead Clinical Psychologist in Medical Specialties at the Royal Free Hospital, London. A chartered clinical, counselling and health psychologist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council, he is also a fellow of the British Psychological Society and a member of the American Psychological Association. He has over 30 years experience consulting in clinical and organizational settings in the UK and abroad. A UKCP-registered family and couples therapist, having specialized in systemic therapy at the Tavistock Clinic, London, Rob also practises cognitive behavioural therapy and is an advocate of time-limited and solution-focused therapeutic approaches. He works with children, adolescents, adults, couples, families and teams within organizations, and is Consulting Psychologist to Leaders in Oncology Care and the London Clinic (both in Harley Street), and to St Pauls School, the Royal Ballet School and JFS in London. He also provides psychological consultations and executive coaching to organizations such as PwC and UBS, among others, in London and abroad. Rob is an accredited aviation psychologist and Honorary Civilian Psychologist to the Royal Air Force. He holds the Freedom of the City of London and is a Churchill Fellow.

Overcoming Common Problems Series

Selected titles

A full list of titles is available from Sheldon Press, 36 Causton Street, London SW1P 4ST and on our website at www.sheldonpress.co.uk

101 Questions to Ask Your Doctor

Dr Tom Smith

Asperger Syndrome in Adults

Dr Ruth Searle

Assertiveness: Step by step

Dr Windy Dryden and Daniel Constantinou

Birth Over 35

Sheila Kitzinger

Body Language: What you need to know

David Cohen

Breast Cancer: Your treatment choices

Dr Terry Priestman

Bulimia, Binge-eating and their Treatment

Professor J. Hubert Lacey, Dr Bryony Bamford and Amy Brown

The Cancer Survivors Handbook

Dr Terry Priestman

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: What you need to know about CFS/ME

Dr Megan A. Arroll

The Chronic Pain Diet Book

Neville Shone

Cider Vinegar

Margaret Hills

Coeliac Disease: What you need to know

Alex Gazzola

Coping Successfully with Chronic Illness: Your healing plan

Neville Shone

Coping Successfully with Hiatus Hernia

Dr Tom Smith

Coping Successfully with Pain

Neville Shone

Coping Successfully with Prostate Cancer

Dr Tom Smith

Coping Successfully with Shyness

Margaret Oakes, Professor Robert Bor and Dr Carina Eriksen

Coping Successfully with Ulcerative Colitis

Peter Cartwright

Coping Successfully with Varicose Veins

Christine Craggs-Hinton

Coping When Your Child Has Cerebral Palsy

Jill Eckersley

Coping with Anaemia

Dr Tom Smith

Coping with Asthma in Adults

Mark Greener

Coping with Birth Trauma and Postnatal Depression

Lucy Jolin

Coping with Bronchitis and Emphysema

Dr Tom Smith

Coping with Candida

Shirley Trickett

Coping with Chemotherapy

Dr Terry Priestman

Coping with Chronic Fatigue

Trudie Chalder

Coping with Difficult Families

Dr Jane McGregor and Tim McGregor

Coping with Diverticulitis

Peter Cartwright

Coping with Dyspraxia

Jill Eckersley

Coping with Early-onset Dementia

Jill Eckersley

Coping with Epilepsy

Dr Pamela Crawford and Fiona Marshall

Coping with Gout

Christine Craggs-Hinton

Coping with Guilt

Dr Windy Dryden

Coping with Headaches and Migraine

Alison Frith

Coping with Heartburn and Reflux

Dr Tom Smith

Coping with Life after Stroke

Dr Mareeni Raymond

Coping with Lifes Challenges: Moving on from adversity

Dr Windy Dryden

Coping with Liver Disease

Mark Greener

Coping with Manipulation: When others blame you for their feelings

Dr Windy Dryden

Coping with Memory Problems

Dr Sallie Baxendale

Coping with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Professor Kevin Gournay, Rachel Piper and Professor Paul Rogers

Coping with Phobias and Panic

Professor Kevin Gournay

Coping with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Christine Craggs-Hinton

Coping with the Psychological Effects of Cancer

Professor Robert Bor, Dr Carina Eriksen and Ceilidh Stapelkamp

Coping with the Psychological Effects of Illness

Dr Fran Smith, Dr Carina Eriksen and Professor Robert Bor

Coping with Radiotherapy

Dr Terry Priestman

Coping with Schizophrenia

Professor Kevin Gournay and Debbie Robson

Coping with Snoring and Sleep Apnoea

Jill Eckersley

Coping with Stomach Ulcers

Dr Tom Smith

Coping with Suicide

Maggie Helen

Coping with Thyroid Disease

Mark Greener

Coping with Type 2 Diabetes

Susan Elliot-Wright

Depressive Illness: The curse of the strong

Dr Tim Cantopher

The Diabetes Healing Diet

Mark Greener and Christine Craggs-Hinton

Dying for a Drink

Dr Tim Cantopher

The Empathy Trap: Understanding antisocial personalities

Dr Jane McGregor and Tim McGregor