Understanding Trauma: How to Overcome Post-Traumatic Stress

What is post-traumatic stress disorder? What does it feel like? And how can it be overcome?Trauma is a term that many of us find alienating and clinical. But in fact trauma is something most people encounter at some point in life, and post-traumatic stress - far from being a mental disorder - is a normal reaction to abnormal events: even breaking a bone or witnessing a car crash.Drawing on 20 years of research and clinical practice, Roger Baker explains the many symptoms of post-traumatic stress and lays out a self help programme - emotional processing therapy - which can defuse the distressing memories of trauma and reduce the occurrence of flashbacks, nightmares and tensions.Dr Baker also advises strategies to prevent post-traumatic stress in the first place. Full of real-life case studies, this is essential reading for trauma sufferers, their family and friends, and specialists alike.

• | Author: Roger Baker
• | Publisher: Lion Books
• | Publication Date: Feb 19, 2010
• | Number of Pages: 192 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0745953794
• | ISBN-13: 9780745953793