Treating the Trauma Survivor

by Carrie Clark, Catherine C. Classen, Anne Fourt

Treating the Trauma Survivor is a practical guide to assist mental health, health care, and social service providers in providing trauma-informed care. This resource provides essential information in order to understand the impacts of trauma by summarizing key literature in an easily accessible and user-friendly format. Providers will be able to identify common pitfalls and avoid re- traumatizing survivors during interactions. Based on the authors extensive experience and interactions with trauma survivors, the book provides a trauma-informed framework and offers practical tools to enhance collaboration with survivors and promote a safer helping environment. Mental health providers in health care, community, and addictions settings as well as health care providers and community workers will find the framework and the practical suggestions in this book informative and useful. "

Genres: Social Work, Grad School

180 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

Reviews

[Julie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent overview for those who may interact with trauma survivors in their work. Though, it's light on some chapters and overly detailed on medications (another reviewer was right that it centers a medical model, in that way).

[Robyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

A helpful primer, especially for healthcare providers. Very bound to the medical model, and so quite narrow conceptually, but still insightful and well put together.

[Ola · Rating 5 out of 5]

a very important book that I recommend to workers with traumatic survivors , with simple yet scientific language ,including essential issues like suicide , self harm , and self care .