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Life After Trauma: A Workbook for Healing

Author: Dena Rosenbloom

Trauma can turn a person's world upside down-- afterward, nothing may look safe or familiar. This supportive workbook helps trauma survivors find and use crucial skills for coping, self-understanding, and self-care. Even when the worst has happened, this book shows how it is possible to feel good again. Filled with comforting activities, relaxation techniques, self-evaluation questionnaires, and exercises, the workbook explains how and why trauma can throw you for a loop and what survivors can do now to cope. Chapters guide readers step-by-step toward reclaiming a basic sense of safety, self-worth, and control over their lives, as well as the capacity to trust and be close to others. Readers learn how to protect themselves from overwhelming memories and to heal from trauma-related reactions that may be disturbing their day-to-day lives. Written by experts in treating trauma and based on extensive research, the workbook can be used on its own or in conjunction with psychotherapy.

David J. Dries

In this manual the authors describe emotional reconstruction after various forms of physical and emotional injury. It is written to provide lay readers with information about common responses to horrific events. The victim of trauma of various kinds is an appropriate reader for this work. The authors are clinical psychologists with over a decade of experience working on emotional instability in victims of various kinds of injury. Eight chapters and an epilogue are included in the 350 pages of this attractive workbook. A conversational style directed to the patient is maintained throughout. The authors begin by establishing the type of stress encountered by the victim of injury. They then organize this workbook in such a way that it may be used independently as a self-help tool. In early chapters they describe the emotional effects of trauma and provide the reader with a means to begin processing this experience. Issues including feelings of safety, trust, and regaining control are reviewed at length. In each case, the reader is taken through the steps of gathering evidence from his or her life to address a particular need. In later chapters the authors review a process of resurrection of self-worth and relationships to others. In the epilogue they provide long-term guidance for later stages of recovery. Three appendixes include directed readings related to the subject matter of this book, general comments on psychotherapy, and a guide for mental health professionals utilizing this tool. Chapters including subheadings and specific exercises are detailed in the table of contents. Subject matter including case studies is also accessible in the detailed index. This is excellentself-help tool for the motivated and sophisticated victim of physical and emotional injury. Unfortunately, many of the exercises in this work are beyond the emotional and intellectual resources of victims of injury. This is a guide for clinicians meeting the emotional needs of their patients after injury.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: David J. Dries, MD (University of Minnesota Medical School)
Description: In this manual the authors describe emotional reconstruction after various forms of physical and emotional injury.
Purpose: It is written to provide lay readers with information about common responses to horrific events.
Audience: The victim of trauma of various kinds is an appropriate reader for this work. The authors are clinical psychologists with over a decade of experience working on emotional instability in victims of various kinds of injury.
Features: Eight chapters and an epilogue are included in the 350 pages of this attractive workbook. A conversational style directed to the patient is maintained throughout. The authors begin by establishing the type of stress encountered by the victim of injury. They then organize this workbook in such a way that it may be used independently as a self-help tool. In early chapters they describe the emotional effects of trauma and provide the reader with a means to begin processing this experience. Issues including feelings of safety, trust, and regaining control are reviewed at length. In each case, the reader is taken through the steps of gathering evidence from his or her life to address a particular need. In later chapters the authors review a process of resurrection of self-worth and relationships to others. In the epilogue they provide long-term guidance for later stages of recovery. Three appendixes include directed readings related to the subject matter of this book, general comments on psychotherapy, and a guide for mental health professionals utilizing this tool. Chapters including subheadings and specific exercises are detailed in the table of contents. Subject matter including case studies is also accessible in the detailed index.
Assessment: This is excellent self-help tool for the motivated and sophisticated victim of physical and emotional injury. Unfortunately, many of the exercises in this work are beyond the emotional and intellectual resources of victims of injury. This is a guide for clinicians meeting the emotional needs of their patients after injury.

Booknews

A workbook for survivors of all types of trauma, offering activities, realization techniques, and self-evaluation questionnaires designed to help survivors develop inner resources for coping, self-understanding, and self-care. Readers will work on issues of self-worth, control, trust, and memories, and learn to heal from trauma-related reactions that may be disturbing day-to-day life. Can be used on its own or in conjunction with therapy. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

What People Are Saying

Christine A. Courtois
"This is an important new self-help resource for trauma survivors who seek information about how to cope with their reactions and symptoms and how to feel better. The authors use the knowledge they have gained from clinical practice to provide information and exercises in an accessible and user-friendly format. Survivors of all types of trauma will be assisted in their recovery efforts and are sure to find the authors' guidance reassuring and empowering."
-Christine Courtois, PhD, author of Healing The Incest Wound and Recollections Of Sexual Abuse

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

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