Langley-Adams Library (Groveland)

The post-traumatic stress disorder sourcebook, a guide to healing, recovery, and growth, Glenn R. Schiraldi

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-453) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The post-traumatic stress disorder sourcebook

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Glenn R. Schiraldi

a guide to healing, recovery, and growth

"The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook, Revised and Expanded Second Edition introduces survivors, loved ones, and helpers to the remarkable range of treatment alternatives and self-management techniques available today to break through the pain and realize recovery and growth. This updated edition incorporates all-new diagnostics from the DSM-5 and covers the latest treatment techniques and research findings surrounding the optimization of brain health and function, sleep disturbance, new USDA dietary guidelines and the importance of antioxidants, early childhood trauma, treating PTSD and alcoholism, the relationship between PTSD and brain injury, suicide and PTSD, somatic complaints associated with PTSD, and more."--Provided by Amazon.com

Acknowledgments -- Preface to this revised and expanded edition -- Introduction -- Part I: About PTSD -- Chapter 1: PTSD basics -- Chapter 2: Making sense of the bewildering symptoms: understanding anxiety and dissociation -- Chapter 3: Frequently asked questions -- Part II: About Healing, Recovery, And Growth -- Chapter 4: Principles of healing, recovery, and growth -- Chapter 5: Treatment approaches: professional, medication, group, and self-managed -- Part III: Preparing For The Recovery Process -- Chapter 6: Stabilization and balance -- Chapter 7: Taking care of your health -- Part IV: Managing Symptoms -- Chapter 8: Affect management -- Chapter 9: Reducing general arousal -- Chapter 10: Regulating bodily arousal -- Chapter 11: Breathing retraining -- Chapter 12: Relaxation -- Chapter 13: Managing anger -- Chapter 14: Eye movement -- Chapter 15: Intrusion management -- Chapter 16: Before starting memory work: helpful strategies -- Part V: Treatment -- Chapter 17: Principles of memory work -- Chapter 18: Cognitive restructuring -- Chapter 19: Confiding concealed wounds -- Chapter 20: Resolving guilt -- Chapter 21: Prolonged exposure -- Chapter 22: Body-based therapies -- Chapter 23: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing -- Chapter 24: Thought field therapy -- Chapter 25: Other brief processing techniques -- Chapter 26: Dream management and processing -- Chapter 27: Healing imagery -- Chapter 28: Healing rituals -- Chapter 29: Grieving losses -- Chapter 30: Making sense of trauma: coming to terms with suffering -- Chapter 31: Hypnosis -- Chapter 32: Expressive art therapies -- Chapter 33: Life review -- Chapter 34: Innovative treatments -- Chapter 35: Complementary approaches -- Part VI: Moving On -- Chapter 36: Transitioning -- Chapter 37: Building self-esteem -- Chapter 38: Unfinished business: resolving anger -- Chapter 39: Intimacy and sexuality -- Chapter 40: Meaning and purpose -- Chapter 41: Spiritual and religious growth -- Chapter 42: Happiness, pleasure, and humor -- Chapter 43: Relapse prevention -- Chapter 44: Looking ahead/Summing up -- Appendix A: History of PTSD -- Appendix B: Assessing abuse -- Appendix C: Brain and memory -- Appendix D: Psychiatric disorders -- Appendix E: 72-hour emergency preparedness -- Appendix F: Meditation -- Appendix G: Rape and sexual assault facts and myths -- Appendix H: Medication facts and guidelines -- Appendix I: Medication facts and guidelines -- Appendix J: Early childhood trauma and complex PTSD -- Appendix K: Victim, survivor, thriver -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Additional resources -- Index

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