Trauma Made Simple: Competencies in Assessment, Treatment and Working with Survivors

by Jamie Marich

In Trauma Made Simple , trauma expert Dr. Jamie Marich brings her practical style of training to print, using clinical common sense to wade through theory, research, and hype surrounding trauma. Learn about trauma in a way that is relevant to clinical work, including extensive coverage on PTSD and other diagnoses through a bio-psycho-social-spiritual lens. Make clinically informed decisions based on setting, client preparedness, and other contextual variables. Develop strategies for treatment planning based on the best possible treatments in the field today.

Trauma Made Simple addresses a variety of issues that are imperative to trauma competency in clinical work, including how to handle grief and mourning, assessing for and addressing addiction (even if you are not an addiction counselor) and how to manage professional development issues, including self-care.

" Trauma Made Simple is an articulate and accessible guide to the expereince and the healing of trauma. Using stories and first-hand accounts, Dr. marich beautifully conveys the human aspect of trauma." - Terry Fralich, LCPC, JD , author of The Five Core Skills of A Direct Path to More Confidence, Joy, and Love

Genres: Counselling

242 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2014

Reviews

[Morgan Blackledge · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent introduction to trauma treatment.

Author Jamie Marich is open minded, good natured, big hearted and passionate about trauma/addiction recovery.

The big take away from trauma made simple is that there is no one size fits all approach to treatment. Being effective in this domain necessarily entails (a) meeting the client precisely where they are, (b) assisting them in finding the right grounding and regulating resources (c) tailoring the interventions to the individual.

Marich discusses the need to be “strew wise” when working with trauma and addiction. I absolutely agree. You have to have been around the block a few times. You have to know what to ask and how to ask for it. It’s an instinct.

This is a great book.

I recommend it.

But…

And…

This isn’t my first choice for the trauma nieve reader.

If you’re brand new to trauma treatment.

I recommend reading:

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

And/or:

What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey

And coming back to this one after those.

Great book.

5/5 stars ⭐️

[Rachel Scout]

Wore out two highlighters on this bad boy

[Mary · Rating 2 out of 5]

So, this book has potential but it was a slog to get through that I ended up skimming the second half. There is good information but essentially, Marich spends more time talking about her perspective and offering a literature review (to much more helpful resources) that this book provides little to use. She also gets bogged down by the DSM, specifically in how she assumes the readers will have strong knowledge of the DSM-IV and compares it consistently to what we have now with the DSM-5-TR. I was trained with the DSM-5, so though the knowledge was helpful the extended explanations were distracting and pulled away from her main point about the intersection of trauma and diagnosis. As a whole, I will use this for some references but would not recommend it as a book for anyone to read about trauma if they want to actually understand it and know how to work with it.

[Andres · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's an okay book. Better then others, but not quite at a 5 star level, although it is nicely written and flows smoothly. The content is also pretty good.

[Sierra · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5. Excellent book for clinicians or anyone who wishes to understand the intricacies of the effects of trauma.

[Rachel Elliott · Rating 4 out of 5]

great easy read about trauma and trauma counseling

[mia russo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Trauma for dummies! Class read

[Camille · Rating 5 out of 5]

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