Overcoming Trauma and PTSD: A Workbook Integrating Skills from ACT, DBT, and CBT Author: Visit Amazon's Sheela Raja Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1608822869 | Format: EPUB
Overcoming Trauma and PTSD: A Workbook Integrating Skills from ACT, DBT, and CBT Description
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“Relying upon the growing body of evidence-based psychological treatments for PTSD, psychologist Sheela Raja assembles a treasure trove of useful exercises and skills for people committed to recovery. This workbook is an invaluable tool to accompany psychotherapy and will prove to be an outstanding complement to existing self-help manuals. Utilizing an integrated framework for promoting behavioral health, Raja’s clinical skill and expertise resounds throughout the text. This is an important reference for patients and clinicians alike.”
—Terence M. Keane, PhD, director of National Center for PTSD in Boston, professor and assistant dean for research at Boston University School of Medicine
“Sheela Raja has produced an excellent resource for the many individuals suffering from emotional consequences of trauma that do not have access to, cannot afford, or prefer not to utilize traditional mental health services. Her book is long overdue in self-help literature. It is grounded in, and supported by, the best available research related to trauma treatment approaches. Readers can rest comfortably knowing that this is the relatively rare book written for trauma survivors that includes techniques proven to be invaluably helpful for countless others suffering from similar difficulties. They can be assured that exercises recommended in this book are bolstered by cutting-edge scientific research. Overcoming Trauma and PTSD is truly an invaluable resource—one that I will use often and recommend highly.”
—Matt J. Gray, PhD, director of clinical training and professor of psychology at the University of Wyoming
“Sheela Raja has written an accessible, clear, and compassionate book that successfully integrates important evidence-based techniques for the treatment of PTSD. She does an excellent job explaining techniques so that people can use them on their own, while also providing important guidance about when (and how) to seek professional help.”
—Holly K. Orcutt, PhD, professor of psychology at Northern Illinois University
About the Author
Sheela Raja, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She completed internship and post-doctoral training at the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Boston, MA, and has published numerous articles exploring the relationship between physical health and traumatic events. Raja has a passion for making evidence-based psychology accessible and is a frequent contributor to various print and national television media outlets.
Foreword writer Susan M. Orsillo, PhD, is professor of psychology at Suffolk University in Boston, and lives in the Boston area with her husband and two children. Orsillo has written and published extensively about mindfulness, anxiety, and psychotherapy, and has been involved in anxiety disorder research and treatment. She is the coauthor of the acclaimed book, Mindfulness and Acceptance-Based Behavioral Therapies in Practice, as well as The Mindful Way through Anxiety.
- Paperback: 200 pages
- Publisher: New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition (December 1, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1608822869
- ISBN-13: 978-1608822867
- Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.9 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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Professionals:
"Proprietarianism" has ruled the world of psychotherapy every bit as much psychopharamcology. Freud, Adler and Jung had their day. Then Watson, Skinner and Foa. Then Ellis, Beck, Meichenbaum, and McKay. Then Linehan, Hayes, Kabat-Zinn and Siegel. Everyone contributed enormously, but at least seemed to assert that his or her particular "way" was somehow "better" than the others.
Raja provides a glimpse into the non-proprietary future of the so-called "mindfulness therapies." The "essentials" are pretty much all here: CBT's (and REBT's) belief identification and questioning as well as graded exposure to uncomfortable feelings, DBT's radical acceptance and distress tolerance, ACT's being with what is =and= moving towards what really matters.
Her very simple awareness-raising exercises provide the psychoeducational and experiential first-level scaffolding (as per Vygotsky) patients need to make use of CBT, DBT and ACT in a way that should make =Overcoming...= the new, must-read "basic text" before they move on to the specificity and greater complexity of...
McKay's many terrific workbooks (including =The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook=),
Marra's =Depressed & Anxious=,
Stahl & Goldstein's wonderful =Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook=,
Follette & Pistorello's =finding life beyond trauma=,
van Dijk's =The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bipolar=,
Block & Block's =Mind Body Workbook for PTSD=,
Forsyth & Eifert's =Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety=,
Wood's =Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Personality Disorders=,
and, of course,
Hayes & Smith's =Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life=.
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