5 Best Trauma Books for Therapists
List of 5 best trauma books for therapists. Trauma is an emotional response to a terrible event like an accident, rape, or natural disaster. Check out the booklist.
1. The Body Keeps the Score
In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust.
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2. Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence
Trauma and Recovery brings a new level of understanding to a set of problems usually considered individually. Herman draws on her own cutting-edge research in domestic violence as well as on the vast literature of combat veterans and victims of political terror, to show the parallels between private terrors such as rape and public traumas such as terrorism.
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3. The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy – Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation
This book offers therapists an integrated approach to adding a polyvagal foundation to their work with clients. With clear explanations of the organizing principles of Polyvagal Theory, this complex theory is translated into clinician and client-friendly language. Using a unique autonomic mapping process along with worksheets designed to effectively track autonomic response patterns, this book presents practical ways to work with clients’ experiences of connection.
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4. Expecting Sunshine: A Journey of Grief, Healing, and Pregnancy after Loss
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5. Civilianized: A Young Veteran’s Memoir
After twelve months of military service in Iraq, Michael Anthony stepped off a plane, seemingly happy to be home – or at least back on US soil. He was twenty-one years old, a bit of a nerd, and carrying a pack of cigarettes that he thought would be his last. Two months later, Michael was stoned on Vicodin, drinking way too much, and picking a fight with a very large Hell’s Angel.
