The Ptsd Workbook: Simple, Effective Techniques for Overcoming Traumatic Stress Symptoms

by Soili Poijula and Mary Beth Williams

Book Overview

Trauma survivors need to find ways to work through their experiences and get a sense of meaning and understanding is great. While the majority of those who have experienced direct trauma or who have... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608827038
• ISBN13: 9781608827039
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Awesome Book

I bought this book to help my husband with the PTSD he is suffering from after returning from Iraq. This book has helped in so many ways I can't even begin to go into it all. This is the same book that my husbands pschiatrist gives to all of his PTSD patients who are really trying to get better. If you or a loved one are suffering from PTSD there is no better book out there.

Wonderful resource for everyone involved with this life difficulty

This is an incredible resource for clients , therapists, and family members involved in PTSD. This book outlines what PTSD is, what we can do for it, and provides numerous exercises to begin the healing process. There is a way to heal and this book provides a path of healing that is second to none. I used aspects of this book to develop an implement a program that treated NYPD and FDNY who suffered from PTSD due to 9-11. Much benefit was received. Highly recommended for therapist, clients, and anyone seeking information releated to PTSD.

Hard work

It is really a workbook you need to fill in the answers. The answers may be difficult to deal with if you do not have therapist.

EXCELLENT RESOURCE FOR THERAPISTS AND CLIENTS

Do you have clients who suffer from PTSD? This book is an excellent resource for working through the trauma involved in their lives. There are exercises, questionnaires, guidelines on journaling, many techniques to help survivors of trauma. The chapters address everything from a definition for trauma to feeling safe and secure before starting the work, how to write about what happened, coping skills, physical aspects of PTSD, emotions and feeling them, through finding meaning in the whole experience. PTSD changes people, but this workbook helps them to heal. Working through these chapter enables a person to self-soothe, to be alone without being lonely, to find some meaning in what happened to them -- to gain the ability to be resilient. I would recommend working this workbook WITH a therapist as some of the chapters are difficult for a survivor to read through alone. It is advertised as "self-help" but I have had clients who really needed a helping hand with the exercises to get through them. I highly recommend this resource. Barbara Collins, MS, LCPC Pastoral Counselor/Psychotherapist Odenton, Maryland

The PTSD Workbook

This is a good book that is challenging and rewarding for PTSDers to read and work through. The cautions and reminders to take care of oneself while working through the exercises are helpful. There is lots of information presented about PTSD in a very readable fashion. If a survivor of trauma had to work through those experiences and the resulting symptoms of PTSD alone, this is definitely a good place to start. I like to use some of the exercises with my teenage clients who are dealing with trauma-related symptoms.