The PTSD Workbook: Simple, Effective Techniques for Overcoming Traumatic Stress Symptoms (Paperback)

by Mary Beth Williams (Author), Soili Poijula (Author) "What is trauma?..." (more)
Key Phrases: workbook exercise, survivor guilt, dual awareness, Journal Exercise, Difficulty Regulating Emotion, Helping Yourself When You Reexperience (more...)

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Product Description
Post-traumatic stress disorder is an extremely debilitating condition that can occur after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal. In The PTSD Workbook, readers determine the type of trauma they experienced, identify their physical, mental, and emotional symptoms, and learn effective techniques and interventions to overcome them. They start with the exercise best suited to relieve their worst symptom then progress to less troubling symptoms, picking up key information about PTSD along the way.

Product Details

• Paperback: 237 pages
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition (May 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572242825
• ISBN-13: 978-1572242821
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #5,446 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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71 of 75 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT RESOURCE FOR THERAPISTS AND CLIENTS, September 2, 2005

By	Barbara L. Collins - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Do you have clients who suffer from PTSD? This book is an excellent resource for working through the trauma involved in their lives. There are exercises, questionnaires, guidelines on journaling, many techniques to help survivors of trauma.

The chapters address everything from a definition for trauma to feeling safe and secure before starting the work, how to write about what happened, coping skills, physical aspects of PTSD, emotions and feeling them, through finding meaning in the whole experience.

PTSD changes people, but this workbook helps them to heal. Working through these chapter enables a person to self-soothe, to be alone without being lonely, to find some meaning in what happened to them -- to gain the ability to be resilient.

I would recommend working this workbook WITH a therapist as some of the chapters are difficult for a survivor to read through alone. It is advertised as "self-help" but I have had clients who really needed a helping hand with the exercises to get through them.

I highly recommend this resource.

Barbara Collins, MS, LCPC
Pastoral Counselor/Psychotherapist
Odenton, Maryland

81 of 89 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The PTSD Workbook, October 25, 2002

By	Diana L. Steketee (Grand Rapids, Michigan United States) - See all my reviews

This is a good book that is challenging and rewarding for PTSDers to read and work through. The cautions and reminders to take care of oneself while working through the exercises are helpful. There is lots of information presented about PTSD in a very readable fashion. If a survivor of trauma had to work through those experiences and the resulting symptoms of PTSD alone, this is definitely a good place to start. I like to use some of the exercises with my teenage clients who are dealing with trauma-related symptoms.

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I needed help., January 23, 2007

By	R. Keller (Cedar City, UT) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I turned to "The PTSD Workbook" for help after discovering a tragedy from my past. This book has been great help for my recovery. I found the techniques more useful than years of therapy. I feel that anyone dealing with a tragic event from thier past could find the help to start living again from this book.