Overcoming traumatic stress : a self-help guide to using cognitive behavioral techniques / Claudia Herbert.
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- 9781472136138
- 1472136136
- Traumatic stress
- 616.8521 HER 23
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Positive Living | 616.8521 HER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 220266 |
Previous edition: 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-522) and index.
PART 1: UNDERSTANDING TRAUMATIC STRESS. When trauma strikes -- Understanding your reactions -- Understanding the reactions of family and loved ones. PART 2. MANAGING TRAUMATIC STRESS. Moving towards your path of recovery -- Your life before the trauma -- Methods to sooth your disturbed nervous sysyem -- On the path to recovery -- Managing you intrusive, re-experiencing reactions -- Managing your arousal reactions -- Managing your avoidance reactions -- Managing negative changes in mood and thought patterns -- Guilt, shame, self-blame and self-respect -- Grief, loss, sadness and emotional pain -- Changes in the body and physical pain -- Reclaiming your life - opting for positive life choices -- Healing letting go and moving on
Those who go through a catastrophic life experience often feel permanently changed by the impact of what has happened. They become numb and shut off from those around them and grief or guilt may constantly weigh them down. Memories of horrifying scenes may intrude unexpectedly during waking hours while sleep may be disturbed by vivid, unpleasant dreams. Traumatic stress responses, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (or PTSD), are psychological conditions that result from a person's coping resources having been completely overwhelmed by a terrible experience. These 'flashbacks' can be so severe that sufferers may feel that they are losing their sanity and subsequently become isolated in their distress. This book demonstrates, with practical advice and tested exercises, how to find new, effective ways of coping with, and finally overcoming, traumatic stress. Overcoming self-help guides use Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques to treat disorders by changing unhelpful patterns of behaviour and thought. CBT is internationally favoured as a practical means of overcoming long-standing and disabling conditions, both psychological and physical.