Healing Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Clinician's Guide

This book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding, diagnosing, treating, and healing complex posttraumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD). It offers phase-oriented, multimodal, and skill-focused treatment approaches, with a focus on symptom relief and functional improvement. Readers will gain familiarity with evidence-based treatments, including innovative multi-sensory therapies, posttraumatic growth, and resilience. The book is illustrated by case examples and is designed for mental health practitioners, clinical social workers, academics, and graduate students, as well as other professionals and students interested in C-PTSD.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 167 pages
Publication date: 02 May 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This comprehensive guide is a vital resource for clinicians seeking to understand, diagnose, treat, and heal complex posttraumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD). C-PTSD, a diagnostic entity set to be included in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) in 2022, represents a severe form of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) resulting from prolonged and repeated interpersonal trauma. The author offers guidance on healing complex trauma through phase-oriented, multimodal, and skill-focused treatment approaches, with a core emphasis on symptom relief and functional improvement. Readers will gain familiarity with the integrative healing techniques and modalities currently being utilized as evidence-based treatments, including innovative multi-sensory treatments for trauma, as well as exploring posttraumatic growth and resilience.

Each chapter of this guide navigates readers through the intricate field of treating and healing complex trauma, including how to work with clients also impacted by the shared collective trauma of COVID-19. Illustrated by case examples, topics explored include complex layered trauma, dissociation, trauma and the body, the power of belief, an overview of psychotherapy modalities for the treatment of complex trauma, ego state work and connecting with the inner child, turning wounds into wisdom: resilience and posttraumatic growth, vicarious trauma and professional self-care for the trauma clinician, and contemporary trends in treating C-PTSD.

Healing Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is an essential text for mental health practitioners, clinical social workers, and other clinicians; academics; and graduate students, in addition to other professionals and students interested in C-PTSD. It serves as an attractive resource for interns, practitioners, and researchers alike, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date understanding of this complex disorder and its treatment.

Weight: 296g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030614188
Edition number: 1st ed. 2021