Recovery from Trauma, Addiction, or Both ：Strategies for Finding Your Best Self

Publication subTitle ：Strategies for Finding Your Best Self

Author： Najavits Lisa M.

Publisher： Guilford Publications Inc‎

Publication year： 2017

E-ISBN: 9781462530311

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781462530304

Subject： R163 Life and health system

Keyword：宗教理论与概况,神经病学与精神病学,基础医学,社会学,神经系统药物,社会病态

Language： ENG

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Description

Trauma and addiction are two of the most common and difficult issues that people face--but it truly is possible to heal. In this motivating book, leading expert Lisa Najavits explains the link between trauma and addiction and presents science-based self-help strategies that you can use no matter where you are in your recovery. Every chapter features inspiring words from people who have "been there," plus carefully designed reflection questions, exercises, and other practical tools. Learn how you can:

*Build coping skills so that the future is better than the past.
*Keep yourself safe and find support.
*Set your own goals and make a plan to achieve them at your own pace.
*Choose compassion over self-blame and shame.
*Move toward your best self--the person you want to be.

Mental health professionals, see also the author's Seeking Safety: A Treatment Manual for PTSD and Substance Abuse, which presents an evidence-based treatment approach developed specifically for PTSD and substance abuse.

Chapter

1. Moving Forward from Trauma, Addiction, or Both

2. Starting Out

3. "Things Turn Out Okay" – David's Experience

4. It's Medical – You're Not Crazy, Lazy, or Bad

5. How Do People Change?

6. The World is Your School

7. Listen to Your Behavior

8. Wish versus Reality

9. Find Your Way

10. Possible Selves

11. The Language of Trauma and Addiction

12. Safe Coping Skills

13. Social Pain

14. True Self-Compassion

15. Why Trauma and Addiction Go Together

16. Forgiving Yourself

17. Body and Biology

18. Getting to a Calm Place: The Skill of Grounding

19. The Culture of Silence

20. Motivation: Leverage One Problem to Help Another

21. Tip the Scales Recovery Plan

22. Every Child is a Detective

23. How to Survive a Relapse

24. See the Link

25. Practice

26. Identity: How You View Yourself

27. Perception: How Others View You

28. The Decision to Grow

29. Dark Feelings: Rage, Hatred, Revenge, Bitterness

30. Imagination

31. Create a Healing Image

32. Find a Good Counselor

33. Two Types of Trauma Counseling

34. What the Wounded Can Give Back

35. "We Are All in the Gutter, but Some of Us are Looking at the Stars"

APPENDIX A. How Others Can Help – Family, Friends, Partners, Sponsors, Counselors

APPENDIX B. Resources

APPENDIX C. Excessive Behavior Scale

APPENDIX D. Brief Quiz on Trauma and Addiction: Knowledge is Power

References

Index

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