Transforming The Living Legacy of Trauma: A Workbook for Survivors and Therapists

By Janina Fisher, PhD. (February 1, 2021)

From Amazon.com: “Traumatic experiences leave a “living legacy” of effects that often persist for years and decades after the events are over. Historically, it has always been assumed that re-telling the story of what happened would resolve these effects.

However, survivors report a different experience: Telling and re-telling the story of what happened to them often reactivates their trauma responses, overwhelming them rather than resolving the trauma. To transform traumatic experiences, survivors need to understand their symptoms and reactions as normal responses to abnormal events. They need ways to work with the symptoms that intrude on their daily activities, preventing a life beyond trauma.

Dr. Janina Fisher, international expert on trauma, has spent over 40 years working with survivors, helping them to navigate the healing journey. In Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma, she shows how the legacy of symptoms helped them survive and offers:

  • Step-by-step strategies that can be used on their own or in collaboration with a therapist
  • Simple diagrams that make sense of the confusing feelings and physical reactions survivors experience
  • Worksheets to practice the skills that bring relief and ultimately healing”

The Dangerous Silence of Clinician Burnout

What we need to be talking about!

Posted September 17, 2018

By Sarah A. Benton MS, LMHC, LPC, AADC

At Psychologytoday.com

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-high-functioning-alcoholic/201809/the-dangerous-silence-clinician-burnout?fbclid=IwAR3BYkXo5hshwlgMvHfwhxMWkPRO73oSQvfeRZ5nWHt8b6wgrQfpvoHgg68

Are Sexual Abuse Victims Being Diagnosed with a Mental Disorder They Don’t Have?

Women

The lack of recognition for complex PTSD by the psychiatric establishment means it is difficult for sexual abuse victims who might suffer from it to receive the right diagnosis

Alexandra Shimo

March 27, 2019 

At theguardian.com

https://www.theguardian.com theguardian.com /lifeandstyle/2019/mar/27/are-sexual-abuse-victims-being-diagnosed-with-a-mental-disorder-they-dont-have?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR0il9fbpXLVXnJ_I0srxuyezUoIdG9ARc72mYU-V09UnMQTygbnXSuTW5Y

Growing Up with a Parent having Schizophrenia

Growing Up with a Parent having Schizophrenia: Experiences and Resilience in the Offsprings

Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine

April-June, 2013, 35(2): 148–153

By Hesi S. HerbertM. Manjula, and Mariamma Philip1

At Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3775046/

Separation from Parents Is Harmful to Children

Separation from Parents Is Harmful to Children 

By Judith L. Herman, MD

Posted June 19, 2018

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/decoding-trauma/201806/separation-parents-is-harmful-children#_=_

Managing Chronic Illness Using the Four-Phase Treatment Approach: A Mental Health Professional’s Guide to Helping Chronically Ill People

Managing Chronic Illness Using the Four-Phase Treatment Approach: A Mental Health Professional’s Guide to Helping Chronically Ill People, by Patricia A. Fennell. (2003)

From Amazon.com: “A pioneering book to help maximize the quality of life for chronically ill patients Written by a leading authority on chronic illness treatment and management, Managing Chronic Illness Using the Four-Phase Treatment Approach provides evidence-based practice guidelines for clinicians to help their clients with debilitating health problems embrace a new “normal,” understand the cyclical nature of their illness, and function at the highest level possible.

Patricia Fennell’s groundbreaking model for understanding chronic illness identifies and describes four broad phases experienced by the chronically ill: crisis, stabilization, resolution, and integration. Using a broad array of case histories, Fennell vividly illustrates what clients need at each phase and how to assess and respond to them compassionately. Fennell also suggests how clinicians may best use their own changing experiences in their work to help clients transition through the four phases.

The goal of the “Four-Phase Model” is to maximize a client’s quality of life without offering false hope for a cure, making it an effective treatment strategy for diverse client populations, including people with physiological diseases; patients whose lives are being prolonged by modern medicine; and people who suffer from addiction, post-traumatic stress syndrome, intractable pain, and post-rape and abuse conditions.

Complete with detailed treatment protocols for documenting a client’s symptoms and quality of life at each phase, Managing Chronic Illness Using the Four-Phase Treatment Approach is a highly practical book for everyone working with chronically ill clients.”

Confessions of a Depressed Psychologist: I’m in a Darker Place Than My Patients 

Confessions of a Depressed Psychologist: I’m in a Darker Place Than My Patients 

Told by Laura Powell

February 8, 2016

At telegraph-co-uk

https://www-telegraph-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/i-was-an-nhs-psychologist—but-i-suffered-from-depression/amp/

For Therapists: Coping with the Suicide of a Person in Therapy

For Therapists: Coping with the Suicide of a Person in Therapy

September 28, 2017

Contributed by Donald Meichenbaum, PhD

At Goodtherapy.org

https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/for-therapists-coping-with-suicide-of-person-in-therapy-0928175?utm_source=Subscribers&utm_campaign=8c5cdaa915-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_135946a8dd-8c5cdaa915-71304725