Moving On After Trauma

A Guide for Victims and Fellow Travellers
2. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-58341-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 301 g

Extreme trauma can have devastating emotional, relational, physical and legal effects. This book offers hope, providing survivors, family and friends with a roadmap for managing obstacles to recovery.

This second edition shifts the focus from reliving the trauma to 12 rules for ‘moving on after trauma’ by making the centrality accorded to the trauma the pre-eminent target rather than the traumatic experience itself. In this approach, the trauma victim’s intense desire not to talk or think about the trauma is no longer seen as pathological. The book also addresses the wider concerns of the traumatised about justice, group treatments and medication; with suggested strategies tailored to a wide range of possible traumatic responses including PTSD, specific phobias, panic disorder, depression and body dysmorphic disorder. An important focus in this new edition is the restoration of the sense of self. For those traumatised earlier on in life guidance is given on the creation of a stable sense of self.

This one-of-a-kind trauma survivor guide will be beneficial for any survivor of trauma along with their fellow travellers to recovery, including family, friends, therapists, managers, clergy and lawyers. It can also serve as a companion volume to Personalising Trauma Treatment: Reframing and Reimagining (2022) for mental health professionals.

Zielgruppe

General, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scott, Michael J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Beratungspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. What’s happening to me?  2. What is the best description of my distress?  3. Your distress might be complicated because…….  4. Am I making mountains out of molehills?  5. In preparation  6. Picturing your distress  7. Stopping fuelling your distress  8. Will I get better?  9. What works?  10. A window into ‘bona fide’ treatments and the realities  11. Viewing life through the window of the trauma and the bottom of a glass  12. Excessive vigilance  13. Tongue-tied  14. Depression and anxiety disorders  15. Resetting the alarm, refurbishment and rebuild  16. Venturing forth  17. Saboteurs  18. Better ways of handling the traumatic memory  19. The gravitational pull of exaggeratedly negative posttraumatic cognitions   20. Sharing  21. Mental time travel and me  22. When the picture freezes  23. Restoring relationships  24. Managing mood  25. A trauma induced prejudice against yourself  26 Preparing for sleep, pain and irritability  27. Encountering disturbances of sleep, pain and irritability  28.When pain and impairment are made central  29. Old baggage, new trauma  30. Seeking Help for Children and Adolescents  31. Age-adjusted help for the young  32. Justice  33. What about trauma groups?  34. What about medication?  35. Getting further help  36. Guidance for professionals

Über Autor(innen)

Michael J. Scott, is a Consultant Psychologist specialising in the assessment and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. Dr Scott is the Editor of a 4-Volume work on Traumatic Stress published in 2015 and most recently a clinician’s handbook Personalising Trauma Treatment: Reframing and Reimagining (Routledge, 2022). His publications and blog can be found at cbtwatch.com and on YouTube.