Compassion-Based Practices for Secondary Traumatic Stress: A Resource Guide for Helping Professionals

Compassion-Based Practices for Secondary Traumatic Stress is a comprehensive guide that merges profound theoretical insights with practical compassion-based practices. Tailored for helping professionals working with survivors of trauma, this book illuminates a path toward addressing secondary traumatic stress and promoting vicarious posttraumatic growth through a compassionate lens. Distinguished by its in-depth and hands-on creative approach, inclusion of East Asian philosophical principles, and harmonization of self- and other-oriented compassion, this resource guide provides empowering tools for helping professionals from diverse fields of practice and their host organizations.

Ruth Gottfried, PhD, serves as head of the David Yellin Academic College Dance Movement Therapy Master’s Degree Program and is an ambassador of applied compassion, certified through the flagship program at Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. As an academic researcher, Dr. Gottfried’s work focuses primarily on trauma, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion.