From Surviving to Thriving: A Therapist's Guide to Stage II Recovery for Survivors of Childhood Abuse

By Mary Bratton

Book Overview

From Surviving to Thriving is a comprehensive manual for treating survivors of childhood physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. Inspired by the author's own private practice, it combines both theory and practice and supports the therapeutic partnership with a step-by-step outline of the healing process. This outline includes concrete and incremental strategies and exercises that help you move the survivor beyond Stage I trauma debriefing to life-changing Stage II recovery.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789002566
• ISBN13: 9780789002563
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A Must-Have for any Therapist

Bratton does an excellent job sorting the psyche of trauma survivors. It is relevant material that could help many people.

Oustanding, Clearly Written Guide to Recovering from Child Abuse

This unheralded book is probably the best book I have read on recovering from child abuse. While ostensibly written for the therapist, it is equally valuable to the recovering victim. Unlike many books which spend much of their time describing the problems those abused as children face as adults and not enough time on the solution, this book focus on the steps the abused can take in working through the issues they face in recovery. The book borrows from all schools of psychology, particularly the study of PTSD, for its viewpoint. It manages to be both hopeful, affirming, detailed and practical at the same time. I would highly recomend it.

From surviving to thriving

This book is written by Mary Bratton, a psychotherapist from Toledo in Ohio. It will help the victim to turn into a survivor and continue life with new strength. It is a practical book helping abused children with the hard, long and stressful healing process of returning to life and self-esteem. A very helpful guide for the therapist working with survivors of childhood abuse and neglect.............

A compassionate, realistic approach to a sensitive subject.

This book, written primarily for the working therapist, presents a compassionate, realistic approach to working with women recovering from childhood abuse. Ms. Bratton's core theory, that the defense mechanisms of the survivor were a brillant response to the chaos of her life, allow the survivor to move past the shame those defenses engender later in life. She encourages the survivor to own her strength and to let go of those strategies for coping which are now causing pain.The emphasis is on teaching the survivor to recover her strength and put aside the label of victim. This book is a must read for therapists working with such women, and may well be helpful to women in the later stages of recovery from childhood abuse as well.