A systems-oriented look at how unhealed trauma can prevent optimal functioning-and what to do about it
Trauma Impacts: Repercussions of Individual and Collective Trauma explores the many ways that traumatic experiences affect people from diverse backgrounds, as individuals and in groups. In chapters contributed by experts in their fields, this book offers a systemic overview of how trauma impacts all humans, then delves into the manifestations of trauma in specific populations like BIPOC communities, neurodivergent children, and those in helping professions. The book's third and final section looks at emerging modalities for working with trauma and implications for the future of trauma-focused therapy.
Ideal for anyone who works closely with individuals who have experienced trauma-therapists, educators, social workers, and beyond-Trauma Impacts will benefit from a thorough understanding on how trauma continues to influence lives, even long after the fact. Trauma can interfere with meeting basic needs, forming healthy relationships, and finding fulfillment in the pursuit of individual and collective goals. When we conceptualize these impacts, we become empowered to help people process their traumatic experiences, integrate the pain they have experienced, and lead more satisfying lives.
- Understand the intersectional effects of trauma on individuals and systems
- Discover hope for healing through real-world voices and current research
- Consider how collective trauma manifests in the lives of individuals
- Gain insights that can help you work more effectively with clients
A thoughtful and illuminating discussion of how trauma impacts people and how to undo some of its damage
In Trauma Impacts: Repercussions of Individual and Collective Trauma, a team of veteran mental health practitioners delivers a unique and illuminating discussion of how traumatic experiences impact the lives, experiences, and personalities of people and groups. Each chapter contains a collection of works from reputable experts in their respective fields, offering readers a systemic overview of how trauma impacts all human beings. The book delves into the manifestations of trauma in specific populations, including BIPOC communities, neurodivergent children, and those engaged in the helping professions.
Through the material they've selected to appear in this collection's pages, the editors reveal how trauma continues to influence people's lives long after the traumatic event has come and gone, interfering with meeting basic needs, forming healthy relationships, and finding fulfilment in the pursuit of individual and collective goals. Readers will also discover:
- How to understand the intersectional effects of trauma on individuals and systems
- How to help heal the afflicted
- Strategies to work more effectively with patients and clients
An essential resource for anyone who works closely with individuals who have experienced trauma, including therapists, educators, social workers, counsellors, and others, Trauma Impacts is a timely and up-to-date exploration that's perfect for mental health practitioners everywhere.
