CLINICIAN’S CORNER
The Complex PTSD Workbook
A mind-body workbook for healing and overcoming Complex PTSD
Those affected by complex PTSD, or C-PTSD, commonly feel as though there is something fundamentally wrong with them―that somewhere inside there is a part of them that needs to be fixed. Facing one’s PTSD is a brave, courageous act―and with the right guidance, recovery is possible.
In The Complex PTSD Workbook, you’ll learn all about C-PTSD and gain valuable insight into the types of symptoms associated with unresolved childhood trauma. Take healing into your own hands while applying strategies to help integrate positive beliefs and behaviors.
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The Invisible Woman
The new Science of Post Traumatic Growth
This is Katina’s story. Little could she imagine, the hardest part wouldn’t be the 20-year Army career; the most difficult part would be hanging up her combat boots and transitioning back to civilian life. With searing honesty, Katina Patterson shares her continuing struggle to walk in wholeness and rediscover her God-given purpose.
Sharing her truth is an opportunity to encourage fellow veterans who suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, depression, and anxiety as a result of their dedication to upholding their country’s freedom. Inspiring and heartfelt, this memoir will be a sought-after resource of encouragement and empathy for all who have bravely served, or love someone who has. Katina Patterson is retired from the United States Army, having dedicated over 20 years of honourable service. She holds a degree from Saint Leo University in Liberal Arts.
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Upside
The new Science of Post Traumatic Growth
In the tradition of Po Bronson and Paul Tough, journalist Jim Rendon delivers a deeply reported and unique look at the life-changing implications of post-traumatic growth.
The pain and anguish caused by traumatic events can become a force for dramatic life change. It can move people to find deeper meaning in their lives and drive them to help others.
But how can terrible experiences lead to remarkable, positive breakthroughs?
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Complex PTSD- From Surviving to Thriving
A guide and map for recovering from childhood trauma
The causes of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder range from severe neglect to monstrous abuse. Many survivors grew upon houses that were not homes – in families that were as loveless as orphanages and sometimes as dangerous. If you felt unwanted, unliked, rejected, hated and/ordespised for a lengthy portion of your childhood, trauma may be deeply engrained in your mind, soul and body.
This book is a practical guide to recovering from lingering childhood trauma. Its is copiously illustrated with examples of the author's and his clients' journeys of recovering. It is a comprehensive self-help guide for working through the toxic legacy of the past and for achieving a rich and fulfilling life.
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The Posttraumatic Growth Workbook:
Coming Through Trauma Wiser, Stronger, and More Resilient
People who experience trauma often struggle with its effects, but many men and women have found meaning in their traumatic event and now experience life differently. Written by two psychologists and experts on trauma psychology—including one of the key researchers on posttraumatic growth (PTG)—this unique, evidence-based, step-by-step workbook offers a new model for processing traumatic experiences in order to gain wisdom, strength, and resilience.
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We Are Not Invisible
Twenty-six women veterans from varied branches of the service share the enlightening stories of their lives before, during, and after their military service.
“…The sun is still buried in the depths of the late-night sky – there is no glimpse of light on the horizon. But there is the sound of heavy footsteps as someone wearing boots is walking across the pavement. Something large is just ahead. A few men are busily working around it with minimal light. The footsteps come to an abrupt stop and there is a brief verbal exchange before the one who has just arrived starts climbing aboard the vehicle behind them and gets into position facing the complex control panel. Preliminary checks are run prior to start-up. Powerful twin engines kick in. Four long horizontal blades begin to rotate slowly, then they fiercely go into high gear as they reach maximum force. The pilot of the Sikorsky Blackhawk helicopter gets the go-ahead signal from one of the men on the ground, and she raises the big bird straight up before rapidly disappearing into the darkness.”- Women Do Serve In Our Military, In All Capacities
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Invisible Veterans
What Happens When Military Women Become Civilians Again
Combining research with narrative, this book exposes common threads of lived experience and reviews the latest data on military women and their healthy reintegration into civilian society. Female veterans share their stories of seeking to be seen in a culture where they don't quite fit and their struggles to find community and friendship. Some fought during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as the first women in combat in American history.
Combining research with narrative, this book exposes common threads of lived experience and reviews the latest data on military women and their healthy reintegration into civilian society. Female veterans share their stories of seeking to be seen in a culture where they don't quite fit and their struggles to find community and friendship. Some fought during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as the first women in combat in American history.
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The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for PTSD:
Practical Exercises for Overcoming Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
This pragmatic workbook offers evidence-based skills grounded in dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) to help you find lasting relief from trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). If you've experienced trauma, you should know that there is nothing wrong with you. Trauma is a normal reaction to an abnormal event.
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Struggle Well
Thriving in the Aftermath of Trauma
Ken Falke and Josh Goldberg train combat veterans battling PTSD to understand and achieve Posttraumatic Growth (PTG). PTG helps you discover opportunities from times of struggle, and this book provides actionable strategies for making peace with past experiences, living in the present, and planning for a great future.
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Maybe You Should Talk To Someone
A Therapist, Her Therapist and Our Lives Revealed
Psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb was used to being the therapist in the room until she experienced a crisis that led her to change roles and sit on the therapy couch. In the New York Times bestselling memoir, “Maybe You Should Talk to Someone,” Gottlieb takes readers through life as a therapist seeking therapy.
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The Female Factor:
The Whole-Body Health Bible for Women
The Female Factor provides methods to protect and maximise women’s health, exploring , movement, mood, sleep, menopause and lots more.
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Understanding and Treating Military Sexual Trauma
The book examines in powerful detail how military culture enables a pervasive subculture of sexual violence, from consistently devaluing women to blaming victims and denying them justice.
The author's dual attachment/trauma theory lens attends to a wide range of outcomes such as unit members closing ranks against survivors and the continuing impact of assault trauma on veterans' lives.
You can order this book online HERE
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Mental Health and Pain:
Somatic and Psychiatric Components of Pain in Mental Health
This book proposes a didactic approach to the different aspects of pain in mental health. The various chapters cover the myths, neurophysiology, perception, measurement and management of pain in mental health.
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The Empathy Effect
A book exploring the importance of genuine empathy.
“We are all connected on a neurobiological level far more than we have previously realized. Consciously or not, we are in constant, natural resonance with one another’s feelings. When we are engaged in shared mind awareness, the possibilities for mutual aid and collaborative problem solving abound.”
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Women of the Military
Women of the Military is a compilation of 28 stories of women who have started their path to military life, are currently serving, separated or retired.
There are 4 stories from women in the process of joining, 14 stories from Air Force members, 8 stories from the Army, 1 from the Navy, and 1 from the Marine Corps.
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Compassionate Management of Mental Health in the Modern Workplace
A book exploring why empathy is a key component of effective leadership, particularly in situations where leaders need to interact directly with their team.
People with high levels of empathy tend to have better interpersonal skills, greater empathy and compassion for others, and a stronger ability to build and maintain positive relationships.
Empathic leaders are also better equipped to handle conflicts and find mutually beneficial solutions.
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Military Sexual Trauma
Military Sexual Trauma provides an introspective and eye-opening look into a world that few survive unscarred.
There is a uniqueness to MST which separates it from other traumas, even other sexual traumas. This book is the result of personal experience and research into the reality of thousands of US soldiers, past and present that encountered MST.
Military Sexual Trauma provides an excellent review of the unique aspects affecting sexual trauma victims. The book focuses both on the victims and the culture of the military community that is the environment in which the victims live. Miette Wells is an award winning author and 100% Service Connected Combat Veteran.
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The Perimenopause Solution:
Take control of your hormones before they take control of you
You are not going mad - it's your hormones!
The perimenopause (the time leading up to the menopause) is often misunderstood. For some women, it lasts a few months; for others it consumes the best part of a decade. This transitional period can be a time of emotional turmoil, shifting priorities and physical changes: from hot flushes, insomnia, low mood and anxiety, to itchy skin, thinning hair, weight gain and loss of libido . . . to name just a few! Millions of women in their thirties and forties go through this without even realising they are perimenopausal. It's time they take back control.
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