The PTSD Workbook, Third Edition: Simple, Effective Techniques for Overcoming Traumatic Stress Symptoms

✍ Scribed by Williams, Mary Beth; Poijula, Soili

• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 384
• Edition: 3rd ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In the third edition of the best-selling The PTSD Workbook, psychologists and trauma experts Mary Beth Williams and Soili Poijula offer readers the most effective tools available for treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In this fully revised and updated workbook, readers will learn how to move past the trauma they have experienced; manage symptoms such as insomnia, anxiety, and flashbacks; and find important updates reflecting the new DSM-V definition of PTSD. Read more...

Abstract: In the third edition of the best-selling The PTSD Workbook, psychologists and trauma experts Mary Beth Williams and Soili Poijula offer readers the most effective tools available for treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In this fully revised and updated workbook, readers will learn how to move past the trauma they have experienced; manage symptoms such as insomnia, anxiety, and flashbacks; and find important updates reflecting the new DSM-V definition of PTSD

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Introduction
1
A Look at Trauma
2
Before Doing the Work: Safety, Security, and Intention
3
Identifying and Writing About What Has Happened to You
4
Helping Yourself When You Reexperience a Trauma
5
Coping with Trauma with Less Avoidance
6
Dealing with Category D Symptoms: Part I
7
Dealing with Category D Symptoms: Part 2
8
Lessening Arousal: What to Do If You Can't Sleep, Can't Relax, or Are Angry and Irritable
9
Stress, Trauma, and the Body
10
For Veterans Returning from War: Tools for Personal Survival
11
Finding Meaning
12
Final Thoughts and Exercises
References.

✦ Subjects

Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Diagnosis -- Popular works.;Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Treatment -- Popular works.;Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Diagnosis.;Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Treatment.