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

Schiraldi, Glenn R., 1947- (Author).

Summary:

"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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780071840590
ISBN: 0071840591
Physical Description: xv, 478 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: Revised and expanded second edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : McGraw-Hill Education, [2016]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-453) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I: About PTSD. PTSD basics ; Making sense of the bewildering symptoms: understanding anxiety and dissociation ; Frequently asked questions -- Part II: About healing, recovery, and growth. Principles of healing, recovery, and growth ; Treatment approaches : professional, medication, group, and self-managed -- Part III: Preparing for the recovery process. Stabilization and balance ; Taking care of your health -- Part IV: Managing symptoms. Affect management ; Reducing general arousal ; Regulating bodily arousal ; Breathing retraining ; Relaxation ; Managing anger ; Eye movement ; Intrusion management ; Before starting memory work : helpful strategies -- Part V: Treatment. Principles of memory work ; Cognitive restructuring ; Confiding concealed wounds ; Resolving guilt ; Prolonged exposure ; Body-based therapies ; Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing ; Thought field therapy ; Other brief processing techniques ; Dream management and processing ; Healing imagery ; Healing rituals ; Grieving losses ; Making sense of trauma : coming to terms with suffering ; Hypnosis ; Expressive art therapies ; Life review ; Innovative treatments ; Complementary approaches -- Part VI: Moving on. Transitioning ; Building self-esteem ; Unfinished business : resolving anger ; Intimacy and sexuality ; Meaning and purpose ; Spiritual and religious growth ; Happiness, pleasure, and humor ; Relapse prevention ; Looking ahead/Summing up -- Appendices: History of PTSD ; Assessing abuse ; Brain and memory ; Psychiatric disorders ; 72-hour emergency preparedness ; Meditation ; Rape and sexual assault facts and myths ; Medication facts and guidelines ; Medication facts and guidelines ; Early childhood trauma and complex PTSD ; Victim, survivor, thriver,