The PTSD workbook : simple, effective techniques for overcoming traumatic stress symptoms
"In The PTSD Workbook, two psychologists and trauma experts gather together techniques and interventions used by PTSD experts from around the world to offer trauma survivors the most effective tools available to conquer their most distressing trauma-related symptoms. Readers learn how to determine the type of trauma they experienced, identify their symptoms, and learn the most effective strategies they can use to overcome them."--Back cover
Print Book, English, ©2002
New Harbinger Publications, Inc., Oakland, CA, ©2002
Popular Work
viii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
9781572242821, 1572242825
51039725
Ch. 1. A look at trauma: simple and complex
Ch. 2. Before doing the work: safety, security, and intention
Ch. 3. Identifying and writing about what has happened to you
Ch. 4. Helping yourself when you reexperience a trauma
Ch. 5. Coping with trauma with less avoidance and denial
Ch. 6. The physical side of PTSD
Ch. 7. Dealing with associated symptoms of PTSD: Guilt, survivor guilt, shame, and loss
Ch. 8. Difficulty regulating emotion (complex PTSD, category 1)
Ch. 9. Alterations in attention or consciousness: dealing with dissociation and traumatic amnesia (complex PTSD, category 2)
Ch. 10. Somatization: how trauma impacts your body (complex PTSD, category 3)
Ch. 11. How trauma impacts the way you view yourself (complex PTSD, category 4)
Ch. 12. Dealing with your perpetrators (complex PTSD, category 5)
Ch. 13. Alterations in your relationships with others (complex PTSD, category 6)
Ch. 14. Finding meaning (complex PTSD, category 7)
Ch. 15. Final thoughts and exercises