Shocks No More!: From Surviving.to Thriving

Finally stop the SHOCKS of life from hijacking you! Do you feel stuck, don't understand why you do (or feel) the same things over and over (even though you don't like the outcome), live from crisis to crisis, are unstable in housing, work, relationships or have experienced great difficulty in life? This SHOCKS NO MORE! book is written for YOU. Learn to understand and change your patterns so you can finally achieve your goals.

For the Helping Professional. This SHOCKS NO MORE! book will help you understand clients/consumers/ patients/students/mentees who are stuck. Adverse Childhood Events have been shown to cost society $1.8 Million per 2014 victim (during their lifetime). The cost of emotional pain is incalculable throughout the entire lifespan to not only the child (who becomes an adult) but all of the people they encounter. A common reaction of the child, which can follow through adulthood, is Learned Helplessness. Helping Professionals seek to empower others to fulfill their dreams. However, Learned Helplessness is a profound barrier for many (clients and professionals). This model teaches how viewing the world from a Learned Helplessness perspective presents unique ways of viewing goals. Helping Professionals assume they are talking the same language as clients when they develop goals together. This model shows that folks, who struggle with Learned Helplessness, are actually thinking about goals from a completely different paradigm than the professional! Understanding and resolving this miscommunication through the SHOCKS NO MORE! Model offers relevant and immediate solutions.

Dr. Tousignant has been in Maine since 2000 and in private practice since 2004. She treats the general population from ages 2-102. She also specializes in treating the disorders that arise from abuse including diagnosing and treating dissociative disorders in children from ages 5 through the elderly. Dr. Tousignant has been working with abused children, their families and adults abused as children since 1980. First as a volunteer, then as an undergraduate at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC), where she assisted with chart research on dissociative disorders at Dorothea Dix Hospital through University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned her M.A. and Psy.D. from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Indiana, PA). After her pre-doctoral internship at Park Center, Inc. (Fort Wayne, IN), she worked as a DBT therapist and completed a mini-fellowship in Treating Severe Dissociative Disorders through Indiana University (Indianapolis, IN). Dr. Tousignant's dissertation was one of the world's first simultaneous cross-cultural studies in Dissociative Disorders in 2 Countries (America and Germany). She wrote (with Dr. Vedat Sar) an international review of dissociative disorders for the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (now ISSTD). Dr. Tousignant's work led to the evolution of this theory. She observes client's growth daily through application of this theory in their lives.