A Practical Approach to Trauma: Empowering Interventions

✍ Scribed by Priscilla Dass-Brailsford

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 385
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A Practical Approach to Trauma: Empowering Interventions provides trauma counselors with effective guidelines that enhance skills and improve expertise in conducting empowering therapeutic interventions. Taking a practitioner’s perspective, author Priscilla Dass-Brailsford focuses on practical application and skill building in an effort to understand the impact of extreme stress and violence on the human psyche.

Key Features:  

• Offers comprehensive coverage of trauma intervention: The wide coverage of the different levels of trauma― individual, community, institutional―and attention to the current theoretical and research literature makes this text the most comprehensive regarding trauma and its treatment.
• Highlights the intersection between trauma and culture: An ecological perspective focuses on the importance of viewing behavior within its social setting and examining the physical and psychosocial barriers to trauma recovery.
• Emphasizes the theme of "empowerment": Empowerment focuses on client strengths as the practitioner is encouraged to support clients towards resiliency.
• Provides an extensive historical background: The book examines multigenerational trauma experienced by several ethnic minority groups.
• Includes case studies and worksheets: Case studies gleaned from the author’s clinical experience provide a snapshot of the field and make the work of trauma come alive.

Intended Audience:  
This is an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on psychological trauma in the departments of Counseling, Psychology, Human Services, and Social Work. It is also a useful resource for practicing clinicians.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 - Overview of Trauma
2 - Assessment of PTSD, ASD, and DESNOS
3 - Models of Trauma Treatment
4 - Empowering Interventions
5 - Crisis Interventions
6 - Group Psychotherapy for Trauma Survivors
7 - Community Trauma and Working in the Schools
8 - Traumatic Stress Debriefing With Adults
9 - Children and Adolescents
10 - Treating Interpersonal Violence
11 - Treating Political Refugees
12 - Terrorism
13 - Natural Disasters
14 - Helping the Helper
Appendix I: Common Reactions to Trauma
Appendix II: Coping With Trauma
Appendix III: Coping With Grief and Loss
Appendix IV: Helping Children Cope With Loss and Grief
Appendix V: Client Safety and Self-Care Worksheet
Appendix VI: Deep/Diaphragmatic Breathing
Appendix VII: Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Appendix VIII: Stages of Burnout
Appendix IX: Counselor Self-Care
Appendix X: Trauma Assessment Tools for Adults
Appendix XI: Trauma Assessment Tools for Children and Adolescents
Index
About the Author