Trauma and Attachment: Over 150 Attachment-Based Interventions to Heal Trauma

by Christina Reese

Christina Reese has dedicated her life’s work to helping those with trauma cope to live healthier, happier, and more fulfilling lives. In her newest book, Trauma and Attachment, she has created a resource to guide clients from a place of fear, anxiety, and trauma to healthy attachment.

In this comprehensive yet accessible book, Dr. Reese provides an attachment framework for treating clients who have experienced a multitude of traumas, ranging from abuse and neglect to medical traumas, natural disasters, and exposure to violence. Through a variety of worksheets, exercises, and activities, this book provides clients with the tools they need to develop a foundation for healing so they can find feelings of safety and security within relationships again.

Inside, clinicians will find tools to help clients heal from the impact • Abuse by helping them establish safety and security within relationships.• Neglect by teaching them to find their voice and express their needs.• Medical trauma by helping them adjust to a new normal and better tolerate uncertainty.• Natural disasters by using mindful grounding techniques to navigate sensory triggers and cultivate mind-body awareness.• Witnessing violence by restoring clients’ sense of felt safety and helping clients identify what they can control to keep themselves safe.

Genres: Psychology

320 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 5, 2021

Reviews

[Ray · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has been like a breath of fresh air and sometimes an eye-opener. Everything is rooted in childhood, and in some cases, even what happens when we are in our mom’s womb can have an impact on how our brain works. We have our brains wired from the beginning and in the early years, and how others respond (or not) is how we will be, and sometimes we are not even aware of our fight, flight or freeze responses in our everyday lives. However, psychology goes beyond science, and different patterns can mould different personalities. Thus, ironically the same traumatic event can create a narcissistic personality or an empathic, overprotective one. I really enjoyed reading about the connection between memory and language, and how they inter-develop at the same time, the importance of attunement (“we are ‘in tune’ with someone else, enough that we see their need and care enough about them to meet that need") and how independence, developed too early in a child, can lead to issues related to control, lack of empathy and of attachment, and the inability to see the importance of interdependence.
More about it and some of the main quotes here: https://raysithaca.blogspot.com/2024/...

[Camellia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Unable to access the worksheets

This book is excellent. However, I cannot use the worksheets in my practice because there is no link (in the kindle book). So I may have to purchase the actual book, which means that I have wasted money.