Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

by Scott, Michael J.; Palmer, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780304705443
• ISBN10: 0304705446
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Sage Pubns Ltd

Summary

This is the first comprehensive reader in a new area of counselling. It brings together well-known authors on traumatic stress responses and good counselling practice, as well as new material specifically written in order to fill gaps in current published sources. The authors cover an extensive range of methods for helping people, including videotaping, brief group counselling, expressive art, and information on helping the helpers.Covering a range of methods for helping people with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), this book includes expressive art, video taping, brief group counselling, and also focuses on helping the helpers.

Author Biography

Michael J. Scott is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

Note on the Editors	p. ix
Series Foreword	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
PTSD Diagnosis and Treatment for Mental Health Clinicians	p. 1
Assessment and Conceptualization	p. 15
Guidelines for Crisis Counselling	p. 33
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: A Cognitive-contextual Approach	p. 36
Cognitive-behavioural Treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder from a Narrative Constructivist Perspective: A Conversation with Donald Meichenbaum	p. 49
Brief Group Counselling and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder	p. 70
Letter Writing, Audiotaping and Videotaping as Therapeutic Tools: Use of 'Healing' Metaphors	p. 96
What Can Be Done to Help Clients with PTSD and DES?	p. 102
Expressive Art as a Form of Prevention and Treatment of PTSD with Children	p. 111
Helping the Helpers	p. 117
The Counting Method for Ameliorating Traumatic Memories	p. 122
Journeying with the Traumatized- the Hillsborough Disaster	p. 129
Power Therapies, Miraculous Claims and the Cures that Fail	p. 134
Afterword	p. 137
Discussion Issues	p. 141
Index	p. 145
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