Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 237 pages
- Published by: New Harbinger Publications
- Edition: 1st Edition May 15, 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1572242825
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1572242821
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Book Dimensions:
10.7 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
- Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Product Description
Post-traumatic stress disorder is an extremely debilitating condition that can occur after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal. In The PTSD Workbook, readers determine the type of trauma they experienced, identify their physical, mental, and emotional symptoms, and learn effective techniques and interventions to overcome them. They start with the exercise best suited to relieve their worst symptom then progress to less troubling symptoms, picking up key information about PTSD along the way.
Reader ReviewsDo you have clients who suffer from PTSD? This book is an excellent resource for working through the trauma involved in their lives. There are exercises, questionnaires, guidelines on journaling, many techniques to help survivors of trauma. The chapters address everything from a definition for trauma to feeling safe and secure before starting the work, how to write about what happened, coping skills, physical aspects of PTSD, emotions and feeling them, through finding meaning in the whole experience. PTSD changes people, but this workbook helps them to heal. Working through these chapter enables a person to self-soothe, to be alone without being lonely, to find some meaning in what happened to them -- to gain the ability to be resilient. I would recommend working this workbook WITH a therapist as some of the chapters are difficult for a survivor to read through alone. It is advertised as "self-help" but I have had clients who really needed a helping hand with the exercises to get through them. I highly recommend this resource. Barbara Collins, MS, LCPC Pastoral Counselor/Psychotherapist Odenton, Maryland
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