Coping skills in health care -- Coping skills approach -- Strategies and skills -- Phases in adaptation -- Coping skills for crisis phase -- Assimilation of suffering -- Discomfort and frustration management -- Identity management -- Self-support training -- Coping skills for alienation phase -- Uncertainty tolerance -- Bitterness disposal training -- Body accommodation and disfigurement neutralization -- Coping skills for consolidation phase -- Meaning-making -- Limitation management -- References.