Treating the trauma survivor

Treating the Trauma Survivor is a practical guide to assist mental health, healthcare, and social service providers in providing trauma-informed care. This resource provides essential information in order to understand the impact of trauma by summarizing key literature in an easily accessible and user-friendly format. Providers will be able to identify common pitfalls and learn how to avoid retraumatizing survivors during interactions. Based on the authors’ extensive experience and interactions with trauma survivors, the book provides a trauma-informed framework and offers practical tools to enhance collaboration with survivors and promote a safer helping environment. Mental health providers in healthcare, community, and addictions settings as well as healthcare providers and community workers will find the framework and the practical suggestions in this book informative and useful.

Medicina e Saúde / Não-ficção