Books
When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects of Early Sexual Abuse on Childbearing Women
When Survivors Give Birth is written for a mixed audience of maternity care professionals and para-professionals, mental health therapists and counselors, and women survivors and their families.
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Trauma Informed Care in the Perinatal Period
Pregnancy is a crucial point of intersection between generations. During pregnancy, women with a childhood maltreatment history have a 12-fold increased risk of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although awareness of the need…
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Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Trauma and Recovery is revered as the seminal text on understanding trauma survivors. When first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years…
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How to Choose a Therapist
One of the primary roles of Sidran Foundation’s Psych Trauma Information Service is to assist people who have been traumatized in finding various kinds of help. “Treatment” is usually sought when the behavioral adaptations (symptoms) typical of trauma survivors become disabling and/or interfere with work, home life, sleep, parenting and other aspects of daily function.
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Dissociative Child, The Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management, Second Edition (Printable)
Addresses all aspects of caring for the dissociative child and adolescent.
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Ethics in Victim Services
“Bravo to Melissa Hook for successfully communicating the core ethics of the victim rights and service field. She effectively connects the wisdom, practical application, and complexities of working with crime victims. This book is mind-opening, validating, and promotes the self-awareness necessary for effective victim service. It is a must read whether one has been in the field for one month or 30 years.”
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Growing Beyond Survival: A Self-Help Toolkit for Managing Traumatic Stress, Second Edition
New, second edition! Growing Beyond Survival is a self-management workbook, which teaches skills that empower survivors to take control of and de-escalate their most distressing trauma related symptoms.
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Male Victims of Same-Sex Abuse
Sexual victimization of boys and men remains a taboo subject, and resources for this neglected population and the professionals that work with them are difficult to find. This book aims at reducing the stigma and increasing the understanding of sexual trauma in men.
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Managing Traumatic Stress through Art: Drawing from the Center
This workbook is a valuable, practical, and above all useful contribution to the abuse recovery field. Through a series of artwork exercises, survivors of trauma are offered an opportunity to enhance present-day mastery in a grounded, creative, and gentle way. The more I read, the more excited I got about being able to recommend this fine workbook to clients and workshop participants.
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