The Trauma Tool Kit

The Trauma Tool Kit
Author: Susan Pease Banitt
Publisher: Quest Books
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0835608964

Offers insight into the causes of the mental and physical stresses of post traumatic stress disorder and provides techniques and exercises to regulate and heal the body and mind and promote recovery.

Looking at Trauma

Looking at Trauma
Author: Abby Hershler
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2021-10-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0271092289

Looking at Trauma: A Tool Kit for Clinicians is an easy-to-use, engaging resource designed to address the challenges health care professionals face in providing much-needed trauma psychoeducation to clients with histories of childhood trauma. Developed by trauma therapists Abby Hershler and Lesley Hughes in collaboration with artist Patricia Nguyen and biomedical communications specialist Shelley Wall, this book presents twelve trauma treatment models accompanied by innovative and engaging comics. The models help clinicians provide practical information about the impacts of trauma to their clients—and support those clients in understanding and managing their distressing symptoms. Topics covered include complex posttraumatic stress disorder, emotion regulation, memory, relationship patterns, and self-care. Each chapter features step-by-step instructions on how to use the treatment models with clients; practical educational tips from experienced clinicians in the field of childhood trauma; interactive trauma education comics; a foundational framework focused on care for the provider; and references for further study. Intended for use in therapeutic, clinical, and classroom settings, this book is a valuable resource for all healthcare workers. In particular, social workers, psychotherapists, spiritual care providers, nurses, occupational therapists, psychologists, primary care physicians, and psychiatrists will find this tool kit indispensable.

Growing Beyond Survival

Growing Beyond Survival
Author: Elizabeth G. Vermilyea
Publisher: Sidran Traumatic Stress Ins
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2000
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781886968097

The Modern Trauma Toolkit

The Modern Trauma Toolkit
Author: Christy Gibson
Publisher: Hachette Go
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2023-05-02
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0306831074

Embrace your innate power and find growth from trauma with this essential guide filled with groundbreaking solutions and strategies for your healing journey. Amid collective trauma, it helps to know that our bodies are built to respond to stress and what we might do to shift those reflexes. Having studied brain-based and body-based approaches to wellbeing, Dr. Christy Gibson teaches readers how to embrace their innate power and catalyze community wisdom. Drawing on her work with people suffering from stress and societal challenges, Dr. Gibson shares practical and effective mental health advice you can personalize. In clear and accessible language, The Modern Trauma Toolkit describes new theories in brain biology, such as the polyvagal theory and epigenetics, and explains how you can remodel your brain to achieve post-traumatic growth. While noting how particular communities face inequitable stressors, she empowers readers to identify and harness their unique and cultural strengths. Dr. Gibson shares over forty activities that can be self-taught and practiced so you can begin your healing journey today, including: Iffirmations: Reimagine affirmations to plant seeds of possibility The Container: Create your box of shame and leave it behind Havening: Discover the body's three areas that are best suited to self-soothing Solutions Studio: Catalyze change at the systems level using design thinking

The Trauma and Adversity Workbook for Teens

The Trauma and Adversity Workbook for Teens
Author: Gina M. Biegel
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2023-06-01
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1684037999

You can move past toxic stress, let go of fear and anger, and build resilience! This workbook will show you how. Do you often feel sad, anxious, angry, or upset and don’t really know why? Do you no longer enjoy the things you used to enjoy, or feel like the world is a bad place? If you’ve experienced extreme stress or trauma—such as abuse, neglect, a family member's illness, or living through a natural disaster—you may need help healing and moving forward in your life. It’s important to know that you are not alone, and there is nothing to be ashamed of. Most importantly, there are ways to feel better. Written by an expert in teen mental health, this healing workbook offers powerful skills to help you overcome the effects of toxic stress, trauma, and adversity using mindfulness, neuroplasticity, and emotion regulation. You’ll learn all about how your mind and body respond to stress, how to identify triggers, and how to ground and calm yourself in the moment when your emotions feel too big to handle. If you’re struggling with the effects of stress or trauma, you should know that you can move forward in your life with confidence, self-compassion, and resilience. This workbook will help you, every step of the way.

How Schools Can Help Students Recover from Traumatic Experiences

How Schools Can Help Students Recover from Traumatic Experiences
Author: Lisa H. Jaycox
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2006-10-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0833042866

This tool kit describes how trauma exposure impacts students' performance and behavior and provides a compendium of programs for schools to support the long-term recovery of traumatized students. It also compares the programs with one another.

Cultivating Empathy: Inspiring Health Professionals to Communicate More Effectively (Revised Edition)

Cultivating Empathy: Inspiring Health Professionals to Communicate More Effectively (Revised Edition)
Author: Kathleen Stephany
Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9815036491

Research demonstrates that even if empathy – the capacity to perceive or share emotions with other beings or objects – is not part of a person’s communication skill set, it can be taught. Empathy can, therefore be viewed as an acquired communication skill. Cultivating and practicing the skill of empathy among health care providers enhances the quality of care experienced by their patients which, in turn, can even improve work satisfaction for health care providers. Many communication textbooks or manuals for care giving professions primarily focus on specific communication skills and techniques. Cultivating Empathy takes a different approach; the book sets empathy as the foundation of all therapeutic interactions and teaches the reader to learn the art of empathy by using constructive approaches and research findings from social sciences and neuroscience. Cultivating Empathy is perfect for any student or practicing health care professional who has felt that there was an absence of rapport when interacting with clients or patients and their families. Real case narratives, dynamic interactive exercises and simulation techniques are also provided in this text to assist helpers to learn how to be more empathetic. Readers will gain awareness about human and emotional aspects of patient care, which will hopefully make a positive contribution to their professional practice.

Trauma-Informed Yoga for Survivors of Sexual Assault: Practices for Healing and Teaching with Compassion

Trauma-Informed Yoga for Survivors of Sexual Assault: Practices for Healing and Teaching with Compassion
Author: Zahabiyah Yamasaki
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2022-01-11
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1324016140

Trauma-informed yoga guidance for survivors, instructors, and mental health professionals. Trauma-Informed Yoga for Survivors of Sexual Assault provides a comprehensive overview of how to offer yoga to survivors of sexual assault in a safe, effective, evidence-based, and healing way. Transcending Sexual Trauma through Yoga founder Zahabiyah A. Yamasaki draws on the framework of trauma-informed care and trauma-informed yoga program development and curriculum, while also weaving in personal narrative and inspiring survivor stories. She explores practical considerations for survivors, as well as for yoga teachers, mental health professionals, educators, and other healing professionals who are interested in integrating trauma-informed yoga into the scope of their work and/or healing. This book expands the scope and framework for healing and fills a much-needed gap in service delivery for survivors. Yamasaki provides holistic, trauma-informed, body-based, compassionate, and culturally affirming options for survivors as they navigate what is oftentimes a lifelong and nonlinear process of healing. A companion card deck of affirmations, Trauma-Informed Yoga for Survivors of Sexual Assault: Practices for Healing and Teaching with Compassion, is also available, both as a stand-alone item and in a discounted set with the book.

Pocket Guide and Toolkit to Dejong's Neurologic Examination

Pocket Guide and Toolkit to Dejong's Neurologic Examination
Author: William W. Campbell
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2007-11-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780781773591

Designed as a diagnostic tool for non-neurologists or first-year neurology residents, this pocket guide contains the most essential information from the best-selling DeJong's The Neurologic Examination, Sixth Edition. Included are step-by-step instructions for each stage of the neurologic examination, numerous illustrations depicting examination techniques, and frequently used tests and scales such as the Boston Naming Test, Glasgow Coma Scale, and Denver Scale of Communication Function. A "toolkit" at the back of the book contains lightweight adaptations of implements used in performing the examination, such as visual acuity charts, a red lens, a multi-pinhole, an optokinetic nystagmus tape, and other devices.