Psychology Trauma

Up to 90% of adults in the US will experience one or more traumatic events in their lifetimes. While most who suffer a trauma naturally recover over time, for others difficulties continue, and may lead to full-blown depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance use, anxiety disorders, and other problems that interfere with healthy daily functioning. Making Meaning of Difficult Experiences is a self-guided mental health resource for people who have had potentially traumatic experiences and who wish to work through them independently, outside of a formal therapeutic setting.

Are you haunted by your past, trapped in an endless cycle of fear and anxiety? Does trauma control your life, ruining relationships and derailing dreams? This engaging audiobook offers a path to break free, providing practical tools and advice for holistic healing. Trauma's effects can shatter your sense of stability, but you have the power to turn pain into strength. Why not transform your suffering into personal growth?

Most of us try to avoid feeling sad, but in this candid, comical, and deeply-felt book, therapist Chelsea Harvey Garner doesn’t just argue that the future will be brighter if we learn to enjoy the unenjoyable and support each other when the vibes aren’t so good, she also shows us how. What...

Black women are beautiful, intelligent and capable —but mostly they embrace strong. Esteemed clinical psychologist, Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler, praises the strength of women, while exploring how trauma and adversity have led to deep emotional pain and shaped how they walk through the world. ...

الصدمات الصغيرة هي تلك التجارب التي تشكل حياتنا وترسم ملامحها؛ فهي تؤثر في الطريقة التي نتفاعل بها مع العالم من حولنا، وهي التي تترك بالغ الأثر في صحتنا وعافيتنا، ومع ذلك يشعر الكثيرون بالذنب لمجرد الإتيان على ذكرها أمامهم، فضلًا عن أن يطلبوا المساعدة. تطمس هذه الصدمات الخطوط الفاصلة بين الصحة العقلية والمرض، إذ تشعر بأنك لا تعاني أعراضًا تستحق تشخيصًا أو علاجًا، لكنك في الوقت نفسه لستَ على ما يُرام، إذ من المحتمل أنك تشعر بأن الحياة ثقيلة ومرهقة، وتمضي أيامها وأنت لا تشعر أبدًا بأنك على ما يُرام.

No matter what you've been through, you don't have to sit in the darkness – discover how you can heal, and not only survive, but thrive. Up to 20% of veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan experience symptoms of PTSD each year. The same is true for 12% of Gulf War veterans and 15% of those who served in the Vietnam War.

Letting Go of Trauma is your step-by-step roadmap to release stored pain, reset your nervous system, and create the inner safety you’ve always longed for. With practical tools, clear frameworks, and gentle practices, this book will help you stop surviving and start living fully.

Sie haben eine extrem belastende Situation erlebt, mit der Sie einfach nicht zurechtkommen? Sie leiden an medizinisch unerklärlichen Schmerzen, Angstattacken, Schlafstörungen oder Depressionen? Womöglich haben Sie ein unverarbeitetes Trauma davongetragen. In diesem Hörbuch zeigen wir Ihnen, wie Sie es liebevoll heilen können! Sind Sie in Ihrer Vergangenheit mit einer außergewöhnlich belastenden Situation oder sogar mehreren Situationen konfrontiert worden.

PTSD: What Everyone Needs to Know is a scientifically supported yet accessible resource on a disorder that affects up to seven percent of adults during their lifetime. Utilizing a listener-friendly Q&A format, the book demystifies and defines PTSD, explaining that, despite popular opinion and countless media portrayals, this is not simply a disorder for combat veterans. Instead, survivors of any life-threatening event can experience PTSD.

Don’t let your past dictate your present. Imagine a path where self-discovery and purpose come together seamlessly. Using cognitive behavioral therapy techniques, this collection contains 2 full length books, a comprehensive resource, using evidence-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques and practical exercises that provides the skills and techniques you need to overcome past trauma, rediscover balance and build confidence.

"Change is Possible: The Seven Stages to Healing Trauma," Michael Maisey challenges the mainstream narratives surrounding trauma recovery and questions the conventional methods of treatment offered within systems across the UK. Drawing from his transformative journey from a troubled youth to a beacon of hope, Michael offers a compassionate and pragmatic roadmap to healing that departs from traditional academic or clinical approaches.

Traumatization and Its Aftermath guides listeners through each element of the personalized struggle for survival and offers compassionate and patient explanations on how to shorten this struggle—and even prevent it. Packed with detailed resources and accessible storytelling, this book is a must listen for clinicians and anyone looking to better understand the mind, body, and natural ability to heal.

As a follow-up to the successful Connecting Paradigms, Talking About Trauma & Change: A Connecting Paradigms' Supplement provides analogies and models to help people understand the complexity of changing behavior and healing psychological trauma. Talking About Trauma & Change presents the approaches that Matthew Bennett has used in his training and clinical work in a format that is easily integrated into individual or group conversations.

Imagine a moment when the weight of your past begins to lift, allowing hope to shine through the darkness. You've faced more than your share of silent pain and emerged stronger, yet echoes of childhood trauma still linger. It is shaping your perceptions and relationships. An empowering path awaits, guiding you to understand and embrace your experiences while building resilience in every aspect of your life.

Your inner child has the clues you’re looking for—and when you make them feel safe and loved, you’ll find that everything begins to fall into place. Childhood trauma can be extreme… or things so small that you might not even recognize them as traumatic. But everything that happened to you when you were a child has left its mark—and it’s still affecting you today.

Kriegstraumata können über mehrere Generationen hinweg übertragen werden. Deshalb ist Deutschland, wie zahlreiche andere Länder der Welt, auch nach Jahrzehnten des Friedens noch immer ein kriegstraumatisiertes Land. An den Traumafolgen früherer Kriege leiden nicht nur Menschen, die Krieg direkt miterlebt haben und deshalb durch eigenes Erleben "direkt kriegstraumatisiert" sind. Vielmehr kann jeder indirekt betroffen sein, der traumatisierte Eltern und/oder traumatisierte Bezugspersonen hat und/oder in einer insgesamt kriegstraumatisierten Gesellschaft lebt.

The development of narcissistic personality in young children is influenced by various factors, including parental influence, early childhood experiences, societal factors, and a history of trauma or neglect. Parents play a significant role in shaping their children's self-esteem and empathy through positive reinforcement, emotional support, and setting appropriate boundaries. It is important for parents to model empathy and healthy self-esteem in their own behavior to help their children develop these traits.

This pragmatic workbook offers evidence-based skills grounded in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help you find lasting relief from trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). If you’ve experienced trauma, you should know that there is nothing wrong with you. Trauma is a normal reaction to an abnormal event. Sometimes, the symptoms of trauma persist long after the traumatic situation has ceased. This is what we call PTSD—in other words, the “trauma after the trauma.

‘Do yourself a favour and read this wonderful book’ Scotsman Based on the true story of conjoined Russian twins, Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, The Less You Know the Sounder You Sleep is a tale of survival and self-determination, innocence and lies. No one expects Dasha and Masha to live...

If you are a person of color who has experienced repeated trauma from the toxic stress of—discrimination, racialized violence, racial stigmatization, traumatic grief, legacies of intergenerational trauma, poverty, sexual trauma, interpersonal violence, or the remnants of colonial and historical trauma—you may struggle with feelings of anger, rage, mistrust, fear, anxiety, depression, or shame. You may feel unsafe or uncomfortable in your own body, or find it difficult to build and keep close relationships. Sometimes you may feel alone in your pain. But you are not alone.