Books
27 Secrets to Raising Amazing Children
For over 50 years Molly Koch has been advocating that mothers and fathers reconnect with their intuition and learn to trust their judgment.
Read MoreBack from the Front: Combat Trauma, Love, and the Family (An update of Vietnam Wives)
This book helps veterans and their families understand how the trauma associated with war can cause problems with self-esteem, communication, sexuality, and parenting.
Read MoreDissociative Child, The Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management, Second Edition (Printable)
Addresses all aspects of caring for the dissociative child and adolescent.
Read MoreEthics 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.”
Read MoreGrowing 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.
Read MoreHow 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.
Read MoreMale 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.
Read MoreManaging 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.
Read MoreMultiple Personality Disorder from the Inside Out
In this unique book, persons with Dissociative Disorders and their significant others address the complex issues of diagnosis, therapy, and maintaining personal relationships. “Viewed from the inside out,” Dissociative Identity Disorder takes on an impassioned voice as those who struggle with dissociation share their experiences, obstacles, and triumphs.
Read MoreMy Mom is Different- free download
Free download!
This free download is a generous contribution provided by Gene Sessions.
A welcome contribution that demystifies dissociative disorders and acknowledges that children need special support.
– Barbara W. Boat, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati
Restoring Hope and Trust: An Illustrated Guide to Mastering Trauma
Understanding how childhood trauma overwhelms adult well-being is at the cornerstone of Restoring Hope and Trust: An Illustrated Guide to Mastering Trauma.
Read MoreRisking Connection® in Faith Communities: A Training Curriculum for Faith Leaders Supporting Trauma
This newest book in Sidran Institute’s Risking Connection® training curriculum series focuses on the healing role that clergy of all denominations can play in the lives of trauma survivors in their congregations. As many as one in four of the people you encounter may have been deeply wounded by life experiences.
Read MoreRisking Connection®: A Training Curriculum for Working with Survivors of Childhood Abuse
Research in the emerging field of traumatology demonstrates that many of our most difficult-to-treat, suicidal, and self-injuring patients have histories of childhood trauma. Understanding the psychological consequences of early trauma, as well as state-of-the art treatment practices, will result in mental health care that is more clinically effective and significantly cost-saving.
Read MoreSecondary Traumatic Stress: Self-Care Issues for Clinicians, Researchers & Educators
Revised, expanded edition includes a new preface and introduction, a revised chapter on telehealth, a new chapter on moderating secondary traumatic stress through administrative and policy action, an extensive bibliography, and a new index!
Read MoreSurvivor Moms: Women’s Stories of Birthing, Mothering and Healing after Sexual Abuse
Sexual abuse and the reactions to it affect mothers’ whole lives—from thinking about having children all the way to being grandmothers. Survivor Moms was written to help break down the isolation pregnant women and their caregivers often feel—as though they were the only ones having to…
Read MoreThe Essence of Being Real
New, second edition. This manual offers trauma survivors a way to explore their experiences, receive support, and work through the stigma often associated with needing help to heal.
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