In his groundbreaking book, Thriving With Heart Disease: A Unique Program for You and Your Family / Live Happier, Healthier, Longer, Dr. Wayne M. Sotile offers a new paradigm for understanding the psychosocial aspects of cardiac care and recovery. In this presentation, Dr. Sotile summarizes key points from the best health psychology research over the past 30 years. Designed especially for busy medical professionals who are not trained in a mental health specialty, this presentation teaches Dr. Sotile’s practical model for delivering brief interventions at bedside or during routine, office-based cardiac care that can shape resilience in recovering medical patients.

Topics include:
• How to Convince Heart Patients That This is a Second-Chance Illness
• The Four Stages of Coping With Heart Disease
• Activating Positive Family Responses to Heart Disease
• Women Heart Patients: Meeting Special Challenges
• Cultivating Heart-Healthy Attitudes
• Recognizing Signs of Positive and Problem Coping
• Six Components of Brief Sexual Counseling with Heart Patients
• Why Warning Patients About Stress May Complicate Adjustment
• How to Recognize and Treat the Depressed Heart Patient
• How to Defuse Anger Before it Kills
• Special Challenges for Special People
-Living Well With Heart Failure
-Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) Patients