Growing Beyond Survival: A Self-Help Toolkit for Managing Traumatic Stress

Growing Beyond Survival is a self-management workbook which teaches skills that empower survivors to take control of and de-escalate their most distressing trauma related symptoms. Developed with input from survivor advocates in Maine New York and Maryland and with the support of the Departments of Mental Health in the states of Maine and New York this self-help toolkit is both comprehensive and flexible. This versatile workbook can be used as an independent self-help program in the context of individual therapy or in a group setting. It teaches trauma survivors to recognize contextualize and understand distressing dissociative and posttraumatic reactions. It also creates a structure in which to learn and practice skills for self-regulation of the troublesome thoughts feelings and impulses related to traumatic experiences. Rather than simply offering band aid-type crisis intervention this self-paced program empowers survivors with an understanding of where the symptoms come from and why. By learning a variety of interventions skills and techniques survivors are able to select and make use of different tools for different self-regulation purposes.

Paperback: 208 pages

Publisher: Sidran Press; 1 edition (2000)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1886968098

ISBN-13: 978-1886968097

Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 0.8 x 9.8 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds