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From Surviving to Thriving: A Therapist's Guide to Stage II Recovery for Survivors of Childhood Abuse [Hardcover]

Mary Bratton (Author)
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0789002558 978-0789002556 November 13, 1998 1
Become more effective in therapy when working with survivors of abuse!

From Surviving to Thriving: A Therapist’s Guide to Stage II Recovery for Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse is a comprehensive manual for treating survivors of childhood physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. Inspired by the author’s own private practice, it combines both theory and practice and supports the therapeutic partnership with a step-by-step outline of the healing process. This outline includes concrete and incremental strategies and exercises that help you move the survivor beyond Stage I trauma debriefing to life-changing Stage II recovery.

In From Surviving to Thriving, you’ll find everything you need to know about obtaining and maintaining autonomy and speeding recovery in the age of managed care. The self-contained, focused, and incremental interventions presented in this book can be woven into your own therapeutic style, giving you and your clients more freedom, satisfaction, and, most importantly, swift treatment and recovery. You’ll also find step-by-step guidance for dealing with adult survivors, including rationale for diagnosis, process, and sequence.

In addition to the description of theoretical orientations and illustrations, Surviving to Thriving contains:
  • an overview and detailed outline of the incremental recovery process
  • pitfalls and positive strategies for establishing the therapeutic relationship
  • detailed instructions for building a foundation for effective therapy by reframing the client’s self-concept
  • explanations of pathological symptoms in context of necessary and “brilliant” survival defenses
  • workable, specific, and sequential interventions for each stage of healing designed to become autonomous and self-generating for the client
  • techniques for trauma resolution using the survivor’s internal experience
Because it’s written in accessible language and includes explanations of clinical concepts, you’ll feel comfortable putting From Surviving to Thriving in the hands of select clients—a unique feature that sets it apart from most clinical texts. This book provides exercises to help move clients into the healing recovery of Stage II. Enhanced with art and writing from recovering survivors, this book is a valuable asset as you and your clients begin the collaborative journey toward renewed emotional well-being.

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  • Hardcover: 302 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (November 13, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0789002558
  • ISBN-13: 978-0789002556
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.4 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,542,644 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A compassionate, realistic approach to a sensitive subject., April 24, 1999
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This review is from: From Surviving to Thriving: A Therapist's Guide to Stage II Recovery for Survivors of Childhood Abuse (Hardcover)
This book, written primarily for the working therapist, presents a compassionate, realistic approach to working with women recovering from childhood abuse. Ms. Bratton's core theory, that the defense mechanisms of the survivor were a brillant response to the chaos of her life, allow the survivor to move past the shame those defenses engender later in life. She encourages the survivor to own her strength and to let go of those strategies for coping which are now causing pain.

The emphasis is on teaching the survivor to recover her strength and put aside the label of victim. This book is a must read for therapists working with such women, and may well be helpful to women in the later stages of recovery from childhood abuse as well.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Oustanding, Clearly Written Guide to Recovering from Child Abuse, April 20, 2006
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This unheralded book is probably the best book I have read on recovering from child abuse. While ostensibly written for the therapist, it is equally valuable to the recovering victim. Unlike many books which spend much of their time describing the problems those abused as children face as adults and not enough time on the solution, this book focus on the steps the abused can take in working through the issues they face in recovery. The book borrows from all schools of psychology, particularly the study of PTSD, for its viewpoint. It manages to be both hopeful, affirming, detailed and practical at the same time. I would highly recomend it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Must-Have for any Therapist, May 2, 2009
Bratton does an excellent job sorting the psyche of trauma survivors. It is relevant material that could help many people.
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Childhood abuse is trauma, the pure physical trauma of a life-threatening catastrophe or the emotional trauma of two conflicting feelings linked together in the same event-love and pain, love and violence, love and rage. Read the first page
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