Sidran Book Collection

It answers the question: “Now that I understand how trauma affects children, what should I actually do on Monday?”

RA, rooted in attachment theory and the principles of restorative justice, translates what we know about trauma, the brain, and how children heal into specific strategies that all treatment providers can use.

Beginning with a clear explanation of trauma and its effects, Growing Beyond Survival then supplies a toolkit of growth techniques for survivors. It includes many worksheets, mindfulness practices, visual arts exercises, and journal prompts. Vermilyea also provides sleep strategies, tools to develop self-awareness, and emotion management techniques, then suggests action plans for various types of situations by combining these tools.

Three art therapists have collaborated to produce this unique workbook designed especially for trauma survivors. Managing Traumatic Stress Through Art introduces inventive ways to understand, manage, and transform the aftereffects of trauma. It was created to inspire survivors to explore the aftermath of traumatic stress as it affects self-image, relationships with others, and functioning in the world.

The 26 projects in this book encourage creative growth and help to establish a sense of personal safety, while exploring and honoring feelings of anger, fear, shame, and sadness. The art experiences are broad enough to be of value to survivors of a wide variety of traumatic experiences, ranging from childhood abuse to accidents to disabling mental illness.

Highly recommended for both client use and workshop participants. 

A product of the authors’ combined 25 years of work with groups of trauma patients at the Menninger Clinic and the Heritage Mental Health Clinic, this is a compact volume based on a ten-session course that brings old and new understanding together in the psychoeducational approach.

Co-author Lisa Lewis notes the importance of learning new strategies for dealing with past trauma: “Too often patients want to jump into the processing [of trauma] before they have found healthy ways of regulating their emotions. It’s important to be able to talk about the emotions, but to not be overwhelmed by them. We want the details to eventually bleach out and become more like other memories of what has happened in a persons’ lifetime….Our goal is to rob the trauma of its power.”

Many practical strategies for healing are included, such as normalizing symptoms  in a way that will help survivors and their loved ones feel less alone.

Many clergy are not confident in their ability to support people affected by trauma in congregational settings, and yet trauma is a common human experience. This book will help clergy understand the nature of psychological trauma, how it affects people, and how faith leaders can help. Particular attention is paid to the spiritual impact of trauma.

The curriculum (which can be used by an individual or as part of a workshop or continuing pastoral education), does not attempt to turn clergy into therapists. Rather, the material helps clergy learn about growth-promoting relationships, how to access and more productively use the internal resources we have, and to enhance those resources through greater self-awareness.

Whether serving as a pastor, rabbi, priest, imam, religious or lay leader, you are a crucial resource to your community. This book can better equip you to support the needs of those affected by trauma in your midst.

Beginning with the assumption that caring for people who have experienced highly stressful events puts the caregiver at risk for developing similar stress-related symptoms, this book brings together some of the best thinkers in the trauma field to write about the prevention and treatment of Secondary Traumatic Stress, and in a personal way explores our ethical obligations to each other, to our communities, and to future trauma research.

Adams created this method while working with patients at a national treatment center in order to provide sexual abuse survivors and dissociative clients with ways to maximize structure, balance, and permission while minimizing overstimulation and overwhelming feeling. 

In a well-designed workbook format, The Way of the Journal teaches 10 fundamental journalkeeping skills that are helpful for those in treatment for a variety of emotional difficulties, and that are of particular benefit to people with dissociative diagnoses. It includes a Resource chapter that includes journal therapy interventions for common clinical situations.

Now in its 12th printing, this book has helped thousands of people who have or who know someone who has a dissociative disorder.

Contributions by 146 individuals diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder and the people with whom they share their lives have been gathered into an accessible and practical volume for therapists, clients, and lay readers interested in how to better be supportive of individuals who suffer with dissociative diagnoses. Many will find that the book validates their own experiences and feelings, as it explores the post-diagnosis journey.

Winner of the prestigious 1991 Distinguished Achievement Award given by the International Society for the Study of Multiple Personality and Dissociation