Trauma Meaning And Spirituality

Trauma represents a spiritual or religious violation for many survivors. This book describes how to promote healthy healing and meaning-making in clients with a history of trauma.

Books about Trauma, Meaning, and Spirituality

This book helps clinicians conceptualize moral injury and select evidence-based approaches to incorporate in their therapeutic work with trauma survivors, particularly military service members and veterans.

Why Not Me? tells the story of Ron, an Army helicopter pilot who experiences a tremendous amount of tragic loss and trauma, through the eyes of his therapist, Laurie Teixeira. In a clear and gentle voice, she describes their sessions and her assistance with helping him cope-and eventually rebound from-these

This book presents an integrated treatment approach for those struggling to adapt after the sudden, traumatic death of a loved one. The authors weave together evidence-based clinical strategies grounded in cutting-edge knowledge about both trauma and grief. The book offers a clear framework and many practical tools for building survivors'

"Empathy is fundamental to therapeutic change. This book teaches the clinical skills that therapists need to communicate empathy and help clients change. To empathize with clients, a therapist must understand how clients think-what meaning they give to difficult situations. Meaning systems largely depend on culture and other contextual factors. Thus,

This book provides information on the demands and challenges presented by loss, grief, and trauma in the workplace. It explains key theoretical ideas and shows how these are relevant to real-life issues as they relate to working life.

Bearing Witness: Violence and Collective Responsibility offers a unique layperson’s introduction to the scope and causes of violence and trauma theory and suggests ways we can all work to attack these causes. Upon completing this work, you will have a better understanding of the social causes of the violence epidemic

This study explores the relationship between addiction and spiritual transformation. More specifically, it examines how recovering drug addicts employ testimonies of conversion and addiction to develop and sustain a sense of personal unity and create meaning from varied experiences in life. Drawing on 31 original autobiographies, the book analyzes conversion

One of the major trends in the psychology of religion is the growing interest in religious and spiritual meaning making in relation to religious and spiritual transformation processes, notably as the aftermath of traumatic experiences and in situations of crisis, stress or disease when personal well-being is at stake and