Healing Crisis And Trauma With Mind, Body, And Spirit

by Wainrib, Barbara Rubin

• ISBN13: 9780826132451
• ISBN10: 0826132456
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-01
• Publisher: Springer Pub Co

Summary

Text offers training methods, exercises, and intervention techniques applicable to the various experiences we encounter. Topics include understanding crisis intervention and trauma response, mass trauma, life-threatening illness, resilience and the phoenix phenomenon, and more. For psychologists. Softcover. DNLM: Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic-therapy.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Understanding Crisis Intervention and Trauma Response	1	(6)
Introduction: Review of the General Crisis Response	1	(1)
Acknowledging Trauma	1	(1)
Historical Background: Men, Women, and Trauma	2	(3)
Mass Traumas	5	(2)
Understanding Trauma and Its Impact	7	(14)
September 11, 2001: The Psychological Experience---Reaction and Response	7	(1)
Are We All Victims?	7	(2)
Understanding Reactions	9	(1)
Your Reaction	10	(1)
Understanding Trauma	11	(2)
Vicarious Traumatization	13	(2)
Secondary Victims	15	(6)
Mass Trauma: Past and Present	21	(14)
The Impact of Mass Trauma	21	(1)
African Genocide	21	(1)
The Gacaca Process	22	(1)
Ten Years Later	23	(1)
Aging Victims of Mass Trauma	24	(3)
Treating Aging Genocide Survivors	27	(1)
Long-Term Impact of Mass Trauma	27	(1)
Tsunami!	27	(3)
Who Am I?	30	(5)
Women and Trauma	35	(14)
Why ``Women and Trauma?''	35	(3)
Statistics, Women, and Trauma	38	(1)
The Women and Trauma Project	39	(1)
Trauma and Women's Health	39	(1)
Women, Trauma, and the Military	40	(1)
Homelessness	41	(1)
The Trauma of Forced Migration and War	42	(2)
Diversity	44	(1)
Peacekeepers?	45	(4)
Life-Threatening Illness: Cancer and the Trauma From Within	49	(16)
Impact and Role Change of the Therapist	49	(1)
Cancer as Trauma	50	(1)
Working With Cancer Patients: Patients' Needs and Therapists' Skills	51	(4)
Skills Therapists Need	55	(2)
Gender, Family Systems, and Trauma	57	(4)
Ending Treatment	61	(4)
Resilience and the Phoenix Phenomenon	65	(20)
The ``Phoenix Phenomenon''	65	(1)
Phoenixes Amongst Us	66	(3)
Creating Resilience	69	(7)
Toughness and Hardiness	76	(2)
Positive Change Following Trauma	78	(1)
The ``Second Disaster''	79	(1)
Phoenixes Rising From 9-11	80	(5)
Trauma and the Mind	85	(20)
Experiencing Trauma: New Roots, Old Roots	85	(4)
Healing Trauma's Fallout: Current Information on Treatments and Controversies	89	(9)
Compassion Fatigue	98	(1)
Care for the Caregivers	99	(1)
Preventive Interventions	99	(2)
Other Resources	101	(4)
Trauma and the Body	105	(16)
First Do No Harm: Creating a Safe Place	105	(1)
The Body Remembers	106	(2)
The Body as a Safe Place	108	(1)
Successful Exercises	109	(4)
Choosing Life Exercises	113	(1)
Other Healing and Affirming Exercises	114	(7)
Spirituality and Trauma	121	(14)
Defining and Understanding Spirituality's Role in Trauma	121	(3)
Therapeutic Spirituality: Applying Spirituality to Traumatic Situations	124	(11)
New Sources of Healing	135	(14)
Healing the Healers: Assessing Your Own Resources	135	(1)
Defining Healing	135	(1)
Reaching Out to Communities: Using the Media in Healing Political Unrest---The Quebec Referendum and the Anglophone Community	136	(8)
The Clergy Connection	144	(1)
Animals and Healing	145	(4)
Forgiveness	149	(10)
Movements Toward Forgiveness	150	(1)
Physiological Components of Forgiveness	151	(4)
Popularity of the Concept of Forgiveness	155	(1)
When Forgiveness Backfires	155	(4)
Final Thoughts	159	(2)
Index	161