Healing Crisis and Trauma with Mind, Body, and Spirit - Softcover

Wainrib EdD, Barbara Rubin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826132456 ISBN 13: 9780826132451

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, 2006

Synopsis

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We live in a changed world, a world where the enemy is no longer in uniform on the other side of a trench. There is no longer an identified "war zone" and the "enemy" may be the innocent looking person standing next to us. Clear boundaries and an assumption of safety no longer exist.

Learning new skills to address the injuries incurred by sudden trauma and unpredictable lives is essential. This book is written for those persons in the "helping professions." It is also written for those who have a sufficient understanding of psychology and a sufficient awareness of our current world, and want to gain some knowledge about being helpful.

This book offers the educator and the practitioner training methods, exercises, and intervention techniques applicable to the gamut of experiences that we currently encounter. It also will introduce readers to newer concepts and their applications such as role play, spirituality, the role of animals in healing, and the concept of forgiveness. Throughout the book, whether it is in those who represent the highly resilient or those who continue to struggle, a strengths perspective is emphasized. Finally, this book describes the "Phoenix Phenomenon", a concept Wainrib developed during the course of her teaching and practice, which articulates and illustrates an inherent ability to use resilience in the process of converting pain into growth.

About this title

From the Publisher

"In a world where every daily newspaper alerts us to threats to our safety, Wainrib offers the reader an antidote of resilience, spirituality and healing. This powerful resource covers everything from genocide and mass trauma to the experiences of individuals who undergo life-threatening illness. Her words teach us forgiveness and manage to leave us with hope in these difficult times."

-Sandra Haber, PhD, former President of Psychologists in Independent Practice, a division of The American Psychological Association

"Healing Crisis and Trauma with Mind, Body and Spirit is truly a remarkable effort. Barbara Wainrib, an internationally known expert in the area of trauma and crisis, has distilled a lifetime of professional experience to write this book. It is a Must Read for every clinician and counselor in this era of terrorism and horrific natural disasters."

-Ronald F. Levant, EdD, ABPP, Co-Editor, A New Psychology of Men, Dean & Professor of Psychology, University of Akron

About the Author

Barbara Rubin Wainrib, EdD, is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist in independent practice in Montreal. Born and raised in New York City, she led her class in the MSc in clinical psychology at McGill University in 1959, and received her EdD in counseling psychology from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) in 1976.

She has recently retired from her associate professorship at McGill University's Department of Counselor Education and Psychology where she taught graduate level courses in life crisis and trauma, psychosocial oncology, and other topics for over 23 years. She also supervised graduate students in their training program there.

In addition to her many professional publications, she has authored, coauthored, and contributed to several books, including Gender Issues Across the Life Cycle (Springer Publishing, 1992), Crisis Intervention and Trauma Response: Theory and Practice (Springer Publishing, 1998), Prostate Cancer: A Guide for Women and the Men They Love (1996), and Breast Cancer: A Psychological Treatment Manual, edited by Dr. Sandra Haber (Springer Publishing, 1995).

Dr. Wainrib's publications have been translated into Spanish, Chinese, and German. She has acted as consultant to groups, organizations, and the international media, and has run hundreds of programs dealing with life crisis, trauma, life-threatening illness, spirituality, and other aspects of psychological skill development for both professionals and laypeople. She has been elected to the National Academies of Practice in Washington, DC, as a "Distinguished Practitioner."

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0826132456
• ISBN 13: 9780826132451
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168