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The 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.
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 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 MoreThe Way of the Journal
A polished, sparkling gem of a book. Adams makes journal writing safe and accessible for survivors of child sexual abuse or anyone who sees words and language as a way to resolve pain.
Read MoreVietnam Wives: Facing the Challenges of Life with Veterans Suffering Post-Traumatic Stress
Living with a veteran who suffers the effects of Post-Vietnam Stress is like running blindfolded with weights on. Nothing is easy; the smallest tasks become monumental. Nothing is reliable; the rules change the minute you understand them.
-the wife of a Vietnam veteran (p. 2)
Unspeakable Truths and Happy Endings: Human Cruelty and the New Trauma Therapy
Chosen as one of 1998’s Outstanding Academic Books by Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. “In a word, this book is powerful!…A thoughtful and compassionate discussion of trauma therapy that demonstrates how sensitive listening to traumatic stories can make them more bearable for the narrators. One of the important books written on trauma in this decade.” -L.S. Beall, Choice, July/August 1998
Read MoreTwenty-Four Carat Buddha and Other Fables: Stories of Self Discovery
The Twenty-Four Carat Buddha is a collection of original fairy tales set in imaginary space and time but with a piercing relevance for modern life. Each story follows a hero or heroine on a quest of self-discovery, a quest that sometimes ends with a new challenge, sometimes with a hopeful awakening, and sometimes with a painful and unanticipated realization. Like many fables, each story tries to share a lesson about living life in a complicated and busy world. But also, like many fairy tales, each story can be enjoyed and appreciated even if its particular message does not strike a relevant chord.
Read MoreThe Wisdom of the 5 Messengers: Learning to follow the guidance of feelings
The road to contentment demands that we make healthy choices. Without guidance and direction we are often predisposed toward familiar, predictable, and often unproductive approaches to life’s challenges. Fortunately, messengers are available to us in the form of the five basic emotions…
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 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 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 MoreRestoring 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 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
Multiple 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 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.
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