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 Etc Baker
Publisher: Lion Hudson Limited
Published: 02/19/2010
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780745953793
ISBN10: 0745953794
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Psychopathology | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Self-Help | Death, Grief, Bereavement
- Self-Help | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

About the Author
DR ROGER BAKER is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Dorset Healthcare Mental Health Trust, Coordinator of a Research Unit at Poole Hospital specialising in mind-body research, and visiting Professor at Bournemouth University. He is the author of the highly acclaimed Understanding Panic Attacks and Overcoming Fear (Lion).

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