Trauma Competency · A Clinicians Guide by Curran Bcpc, Lpc, Cacd,Ccdp-D, Linda A. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Dedication About the Author Table of Contents Introduction Clinician’s Corner: Essential Brain Stuff

Putting it All Together: The Stress Response

Welcome to “Trauma Land: Home of Scared Bodies and Lost Minds”

Diagnosis: PTSD

DSM-IV-TR Criteria for Simple PTSD

Associated Features and Disorders

DSM-IV-TR Criteria for Complex PTSD: A New Concept

Proposed Criteria for Complex PTSD

DSM-IV-TR Criteria for Criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder Stages of Therapy

Stages of Therapy: Overview

Stage One, Stabilization: Overview Stage Two, Working Through Trauma: Overview

Stage One: Stabilization

Stage One: Stabilization Client Handout: Coping Behaviors Screening Client Handout: Traumatic Stress Inventory Commercially Available Trauma Assessment Instruments

Clinician’s Corner: Suicide: National Statistics Clinician’s Corner: Suicide: Discussion

Suicide Assessment Questions

“IS PATH WARM” and “SAD PERSONS” Clinician’s Corner: Crisis Client Handout: Crisis Plan (Long Form) Client Handout: Crisis Plan (Short Form) Clinician’s Corner: Self-Inflicted Violence: It’s all about Coping

Excerpt from A Rough Couple of Days: Scars

Client Handout: Self-Injury (SI) a.k.a. Self-Inflicted Violence (SIV)

Self-Injury Contract

Clinician’s Corner: Affect Regulation

Mentalization and Emotion Recognition

Client Handout: Emotion Recognition: Sadness Client Handout: Emotion Recognition: Anger Client Handout: Emotion Recognition: Sadness Clinician’s Corner: Pathological Dissociation Client Handout: Dissociation: You’re Grounded!

Grounding and Centering Exercises The Relief Project Grounding Exercise for Dissociation: Five Countdown Grounding and Centering: Flashbacks Grounding and Centering: Dissociation Log You’re Grounded! Protective Container Exercise

Clinician’s Corner: Clinical Application of Porges’ Polyvagal Theory Client Handout: Bobbing for Reality Clinician’s Corner: Medication

Stages of Therapy — Stage Two: Working Through Trauma

Clinician’s Corner: Making Trauma Therapy Safe Working Through Trauma: Mindfulness

Simple Breath Meditations

Client Handout: Breathing Packet

Breathing Exercises A Basic Breath Meditation Walking Meditation

Working Through Trauma: Energy Healing and Self-Soothing

Thought Field Therapy (TFT) Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

Client Handout: The EFT “Basic Recipe” Client Handout: Acupressure Points Working Through Trauma: Somatic Exercises

Experiments from the Center for Somatic Studies

Working Through Trauma: Yoga Working Through Trauma: Progressive Muscle Relaxation Working Through Trauma: Guided Imagery Body Mind Appreciation Exercise Safe Place Working Through Trauma: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) The Four Essential Elements for EMDR Protocol

The Original 8-Phase EMDR Protocol

Working Through Trauma: Somatic Experiencing Various Types of Trauma-Focused Therapies