ABSTRACT
Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress presents a model for supporting emotional well-being in workers who are exposed to the effects of secondary trauma. The book provides helping professionals with a portfolio of skills that supports emotion regulation and recovery from secondary trauma exposure and also that enhances the experience of the helping encounter. Each chapter presents evidence-informed skills that allow readers to regulate distressing emotions and to foster increased empathy for those suffering from trauma. Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress goes beyond the usual discussion of burnout to talk in specific terms about what we do about the very real stress that is produced by this work.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|27 pages
Where We Begin: The Ordinary and Familiar World
chapter 1|25 pages
Accepting the Challenge
part Section II|88 pages
Leaving the Ordinary World: Our Quest Begins
chapter 2|24 pages
Entering the Woods at the Darkest Place—Experiential Engagement
chapter 3|27 pages
Reducing Rumination: Getting Free from the Ghosts That Follow
chapter 4|17 pages
Stories of the Quest: The Antecedent Narrative
chapter 6|8 pages
Stories Around the Fire: The Consolidation Narrative
part Section III|67 pages
Returning with the Elixir