The Power of Story (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781570252150)

A unique self-care strategy for therapists and helping professionals. Providing therapeutic help to someone who has suffered trauma puts the therapist at risk for vicarious traumatization. It can leave the therapist with symptoms of either an acute or a posttraumatic stress response. Therapists are story listeners. One of the primary benefits a therapist provides clients is a safe place to tell their stories and to express their pain, thus diminishing their burden. This often leaves the therapist sharing the burden and the pain. Ms. Collins and Ms. Laughlin have created a process of self-care that helps prevent and alleviate vicarious traumatization. Through the process of story-telling and hearing others' stories, therapists can be relieved of the trauma they have absorbed.

Author: Bonnie J. Collins, Trina M. Laughlin
ISBN-10: 1570252157
ISBN-13: 9781570252150
Publisher: Whole Person Associates
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2005
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 03/01/2005 pg. 112