A Practical Approach to Trauma; Empowering Interventions

by Priscilla Dass-Brailsford

• ISBN13: 9781412916387
• ISBN10: 1412916380
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-14
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Summary

A Practical Approach to Trauma: Empowering Interventions provides trauma counselors with effective guidelines that enhance skills and improve expertise in conducting empowering therapeutic interventions. Taking a practitioner's perspective, author Priscilla Dass-Brailsford focuses on practical application and skill building in an effort to understand the impact of extreme stress and violence on the human psyche. provides trauma counselors with effective guidelines that enhance skills and improve expertise in conducting empowering therapeutic interventions. Taking a practitioner's perspective, author Priscilla Dass-Brailsford focuses on practical application and skill building in an effort to understand the impact of extreme stress and violence on the human psyche.

Table of Contents

Preface

Overview of Trauma

Assessment of PTSD, ASD, and DESNOS

Models of Trauma Treatment

Empowering Interventions

Crisis Interventions

Group Psychotherapy for Trauma Survivors

Community Trauma and Working in the Schools

Traumatic Stress Debriefing With Adults

Children and Adolescents

Treating Interpersonal Violence

Treating Political Refugees

Terrorism

Ch 13

Ch 14

Common Reactions to Trauma

Coping With Trauma

Coping With Grief and Loss

Helping Children Cope With Loss and Grief

Client Safety and Self-Care Worksheet

Deep/Diaphragmatic Breathing

Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Stages of Burnout

Counselor Self-Care: Beliefs, Conflicts, and Rewards

Trauma Assessment Tools for Adults

Trauma Assessment Tools for Children and Adolescents

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