Description
A Practical Approach to Trauma: Empowering Interventions helps clinicians develop effective therapeutic skills and provides guidelines for delivering trauma-focused and empowering interventions. Taking a practitioner's perspective, Priscilla Dass-Brailsford focuses on practical application to increase clinical understanding of extreme stress and violence. The psychological and behavioral consequences of trauma are viewed as expressions of pain and efforts to cope with unacceptable environmental demands and stressors. Responses to traumatic experiences are not necessarily viewed as pathological but instead grounded in cultural systems of meaning-making. Dass-Brailsford discusses how the practitioner's responsibility is to locate and utilize the strength and resilience inherent within individuals, families, and communities impacted by trauma to empower them toward healing and recovery.The author's practical, skill-building approach is taken from her many years of working in the trauma field. The book begins with an overview of the field, which includes intergenerational and historical trauma, and proceeds to review and discuss individual, group, and community interventions. Current theoretical perspectives and methods that provide a paradigm for stage-appropriate, culture-based therapy, which can be integrated into existing therapeutic orientations, are outlined. Case vignettes based on the author's clinical experience provide a snapshot of the trauma field. In a climate where the demand for trauma-specific treatment has increased, this book serves as an ideal text for graduate courses on psychological trauma and a go-to guide for practicing clinicians.
Table of Contents
Preface: Historical Overview of the Field of Trauma and Posttraumatic StressChapter 1: ASD, PTSD, and Complex TraumaChapter 2: Intergenerational TraumaChapter 3: The Neurobiology of TraumaChapter 4: Trauma Interventions and PTSD TreatmentChapter 5: The Empowering Therapy ModelChapter 6: Group Therapy for Trauma SurvivorsChapter 7: Child and Adolescent TraumaChapter 8: Sexual Assault and ViolenceChapter 9: Interpersonal and Intimate Partner ViolenceChapter 10: Racial and Ethnic TraumaChapter 11: Political Trauma and Asylum EvaluationsChapter 12: Community and School CrisisChapter 13: Natural Disasters and PandemicsChapter 14: Self-Care for Secondary/Vicarious Trauma and Compassion FatigueAppendix/Resources
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