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Dealing with the Effects of Trauma: A Self-Help Guide
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Copeland, Mary
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Description: For many years, the traumatic things that happened to people were overlooked as a possible cause of frightening, distressing, and sometimes disabling emotional symptoms such as depression, anxiety, phobias, delusions, flashbacks, and being out of touch with reality. In recent years, many researchers and health care providers have become convinced of the connection between trauma and these symptoms. they are developing new treatment programs and revising old ones to better meet the needs of people who have had traumatic experiences. This booklet can help you to know if traumatic experiences in your life may be causing some or all of the difficult symptoms you are experiencing. It may give you some guidance in working to relieve these symptoms and share with you some simple and safe things you can do to help yourself heal from the effects of trauma. This booklet contains information, ideas, and strategies that people from all over he country have found to be helpful in relieving and preventing troubling feelings and symptoms. The information in this booklet can be used safely along with other health care treatment. (Author)
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Supports people who have experienced trauma by providing information, ideas, and strategies to help in relieving and preventing troubling feelings and symptoms.
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Type of Resource: Guides/Manuals
Organization: SAMHSA
Publication Date: 2002
Location: Rockville, MD
Phone: 800-789-2647
   
 
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