Recovering from Workplace PTSD Workbook: A Recovery Workbook for Mental Health Professionals and PTSD Survivors (Workplace Mental Health Series) - Softcover

Grant, Kevin William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1699470057 ISBN 13: 9781699470053

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

Second Edition

Stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, bullying, and burnout have become “accepted realities” of the modern workplace. This book will unpack contemporary workplace realities, educate you about PTSD, and help you build your personalized recovery plan for transformation and recovery.

Each exercise in the workbook walks you through a process of self-reflection and self-discovery to help you understand and make sense of your situation.

Recovering from PTSD is a step-by-step process. Whether you want to make a change in the next couple of months or the next few years, this workbook is designed to help you achieve the following:

• Open your mind to explore your PTSD recovery options creatively.
• Identify and understand the triggered emotions that surface with your PTSD symptoms.
• Deepen your approach to life and your lifestyle needs.
• Define what you need in your work environment to feel healthy and happy.
• Outline your recovery action plan and personal recovery steps.
• Transform your passions and interests into a viable recovery plan.
• Systematically walk you through how to research and contact local support professionals so you can achieve your recovery goals.

This recovery program has six core purposes:

Validate your current situation. This recovery program begins by validating your experiences and breaking through any denial you may be experiencing by examining all the ways you could be traumatized at work.

Identify your realities. Once you understand how you’ve been traumatized, you’ll learn about how PTSD develops and how to break through the defenses that protect you from the painful experiences you’re facing.

Understand workplace PTSD. Armed with a deeper understanding of what PTSD is, how it develops, and how you react to trauma, you will be able to identify the support you’ll need to heal and recover.

Build your recovery team and develop your action plan. Useful tools and techniques will help you connect with and build your support professionals and advocates team. Once you begin working with your team, you’ll start the recovery process by acquiring skills and techniques to help you weather the storm and start healing.

Grieve, mourn, and let go. Recovery will take you on a journey of grieving, mourning, and letting go, transporting you to a new sense of calm and acceptance. I’ll break down this journey into the stages you’ll travel through to get to the other side.

Come to terms with and recover from the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic. The COVID-19 global Pandemic has left a lasting impact on all our lives. I will review the Pandemic’s mental health, physical health, and social implications and share tools and techniques that will help you manage the trauma and stress the Pandemic brings.

Maintain your recovery. Finally, I’ll share helpful ways to maintain your recovery, manage setbacks with compassion, and track your progress to proactively navigate the inevitably choppy waters as you continue your healthy and productive recovery.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Your career impacts your mental health in many important ways. A career that allows you to apply your unique talents and skills in a satisfying and personally fulfilling way spills over into other areas of your life in a positive way. A rewarding career enables you to express who you are and live the life you want. Sometimes, though, a job may look great in theory, but it clashes with who you are and how you want to live your life, and you cannot find a way to include your needs and desires at work.Our work environments are distinctly different from the contexts we live in with our friends and families. Switching between work and non-work time requires us to take on vastly different cultural and behavioral norms. The divergence between those two worlds often leads to cognitive and emotional conflicts within us.

The first step in your recovery process is acknowledging the workplace realities contributing to your PTSD symptoms. The main goal of this workbook section is to help you identify those realities that are also seeping into your leisure time. You'll review some workplace realities that are proven to contribute to the development of PTSD symptoms and identify their impacts. If you're being abused or have experienced a traumatic event at work, you're not alone, and many treatments and support resources are available to support you through your recovery. If you're experiencing extreme symptoms that are making your life difficult to manage, I encourage you to skip ahead to Section 3, which covers how to find the support you need.

I hope that this workbook section brings you comfort, hope, and optimism by learning to more clearly understand your realities at work. My objective is to give you clarity on how your situation at work could be contributing to the development of PTSD symptoms and impacting your mental health. Your workplace PTSD recovery journey begins by seeing your situation more clearly and opening yourself up to finding the support you need to recover.

From the Inside Flap

Recovering from Workplace PTSD Workbook is divided into four sections from self-discovery to recovery. Some of the sections may be more relevant to you and your situation than others. You can dip in wherever you like because each section stands alone. If you would like more information about a particular topic, the Index and Contents are great places to start.

Section 1: Understanding and accepting workplace realities. Recovery always starts with an intuitive sense that something isn't quite right. For some people, their lives can feel broken, and daily living becomes an uphill battle. This section inventories the most common realities of corporate life that contribute to or trigger extreme stress and trauma. My experience working in corporate environments and interviewing workplace PTSD survivors inspired this list. The purpose of this section is to validate your experiences and let you know you're not alone.

Section 2: Identifying your realities. This section will identify and define what you're experiencing. Since recognizing you're experiencing PTSD is the first step toward healing and recovery, here I'll introduce the process of self-reflection and understanding. The impacts of workplace PTSD are real and can be debilitating. Understanding the underlying causes of PTSD will help you come to terms with your reality. Acknowledging and accepting your current situation will unlock and begin the healing process.

Section 3: Building your action plan. Researching and selecting your support team is the foundation of an effective recovery plan. I begin by reviewing the different types of recovery professionals capable of treating PTSD. Next, I cover strategies for effectively researching and contacting local professional support options. At the end of this section, I teach you how to become a self-advocate, so you can clearly communicate your needs and wants and talk openly to your recovery team about your thoughts and feelings.

Section 4: Grieving, mourning, letting go, and moving forward. Grief and trauma go hand in hand, and this section begins by exploring that connection. As you'll learn, the PTSD recovery process is broken down into six stages of mourning. The grieving and mourning process helps us make sense of what happened to us and ultimately find a path forward. We form a new self-identity when we let go of our past self and reach a place of calm and acceptance. At this point, we're ready to let go and move forward with our lives. The "Final Thoughts" section covers self-exploration of this topic in more detail.

Workbook Exercises will help you digest the content, reflect on your situation, learn from that reflection, and incrementally create a personalized recovery plan. Each exercise in the workbook walks you through a process of self-reflection and self-discovery to help you understand and make sense of your situation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1699470057
• ISBN 13: 9781699470053
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 599