The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder SourceBook

Helping people recognize the coping mechanisms and by dealing directly with the effects of a traumatic experience, there is a great reason for hope. The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook is a guide for both survivors and their loved ones, helping them to see that on the other side of their pain is recovery and growth.
Explains the psychic defenses that can go into effect to protect a victim from further emotional harm
Provides information on triggers and the debilitating effects of post-traumatic stress disorder
Addresses how the healing process can begin and how fear diminishes through a variety of medic and nonmedicinal treatment methods

Critical Incident Stress Debriefing

An Operations Manual for the Prevention of Traumatic Stress among Emergency Services and Disaster Workers   

Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

 The Courage to Heal is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and encouragement to every woman who was sexually abused as a child - and those who care about her. Although the effects of child sexual abuse are long-term and severe, healing is possible. The authors weave personal experience with professional knowledge to show the reader how she can come to terms with her past while moving powerfully into the future. They provide clear explanations, practical suggestions, a map of the healing journey, and many moving first-person examples of the recovery process drawn from their interviews with hundreds of survivors.

The Courage to Heal Workbook

Victims no Longer

The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Sexual Child Abuse
Identify and validate their childhood experience; Explore strategies of survival and healing; Work through issues such as trust, intimacy, and sexual confusion; Establish a support network for continued personal recovery; Make choices that aren't determined by abuse

Drama of the Gifted Child

Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of readers with an answer - and has helped them to apply it to their own lives. Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skillfully in order to meet our parents' expectations and win their "love."

Prayer Steps to Serenity: The Twelve Step Journey  

No matter what pain you are suffering, no matter what disease or weaknesses you are coping with, "Prayer Steps to Serenity" can show you how to walk in the strength and serenity God provides. You can overcome obstacles, solve personal problems, find inner peace, improve your relationships, and achieve success by taking small prayer steps—one day at a time. As you walk each day using the 12 Step principles, your Higher Power will reveal more and more to you about how to draw close to God and pray. The Holy Spirit will guide you and fill you with wisdom, courage, and serenity as you walk The Twelve Step Journey using "Prayer Steps to Serenity".

Managing Traumatic Stress through Art: Drawing from the Center

 Many people find that non-verbal creativity helps them recover. This book uses readily available art materials and gives clear simple directions that are easy to follow. No "artistic" skill required. Once again the Sidran Foundation has provided a book for trauma survivors which I can recommend highly.

I Can't Get over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors  

Covers just about everything from the psychobiology of PTSD to separate chapters on different types of trauma including rape and domistic violence. Readable and full of great exercises. The first and best general book for trauma survivors. Full of information, excercises and insight. Can't recommend it too highly.

Trust After Trauma A Guide to Relationships for Survivors and Those Who Love Them

 Another extremely helpful book for trauma survivors from the pen of Aphrodite Matsakis. Trust After Trauma is a well-thought-out book, full of exercises and opportunities for growth, which never minimizes the work it takes to recover. AND:by an experiencrf PTSD therapist, full of ideas, information, and excercises to help survivors learn appropriate trust. Highly recommended.

Waking the Tiger - Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences

 Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity to heal as well as an intellectual spirit to harness this innate capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question - why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed. Waking the Tiger normalizes the symptoms of trauma and the steps needed to heal them.

EMDR: The Breakthrough "Eye Movement" Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma--Updated Edition

Hailed as the most important method to emerge in psychotherapy in decades, EMDR has successfully treated psychological problems and illnesses in more than one million sufferers worldwide, with a rapidity that defies belief. In a new introduction, Shapiro presents the new applications of this remarkable therapy and the latest scientific research that demonstrates its efficacy.

Neuropsychology of PTSD: Biological, Cognitive, and Clinical Perspectives  

Synthesizing the breadth of current knowledge on the effects of psychological trauma on the brain, this volume integrates neurobiological, clinical, and cognitive aspects of PTSD. Presented is cutting-edge research--including recent advances in functional neuroimaging--on the emergence of neuropsychological dysfunctions in specific trauma populations: children, adults, older adults, and victims of closed head injury. Coverage encompasses a range of chronic problems with memory, attention, and information processing that are related to trauma exposure. Linking neuropsychological findings to the realities of clinical practice, the concluding section addresses key implications for PTSD assessment and for pharmacological and psychological treatment

PTSD Workbook  

Post-traumatic stress disorder is an extremely debilitating condition that can occur after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal. In The PTSD Workbook, readers determine the type of trauma they experienced, identify their physical, mental, and emotional symptoms, and learn effective techniques and interventions to overcome them. They start with the exercise best suited to relieve their worst symptom then progress to less troubling symptoms, picking up key information about PTSD along the way.

Copshock:

Surviving Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)   through gripping stories, extensive research and over 200 support sources, CopShock helps law enforcement officers, their families and all other trauma sufferers survive PTSD. This easy-to-read book is for active duty and retired cops, police recruits, war veterans, corrections officers, paramedics, firefighters, nurses, doctors, security guards, crime victims-anyone suffering from trauma.

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Stress Response Syndromes; Phases of denial, mourning, inhibitory operations, sliding meanings, clinical examples incl. loss of limb, etc.