Bridging Responses: A Front-Line
Worker's Guide to Supporting Women Who Have Post-Traumatic Stress
Dr. Lori Haskell
Many women who seek help from front-line services have experienced past violence
and trauma. Often they do not recognize that many of their difficulties might be
associated with responses to complex post-traumatic stress. Bridging Responses
is a resource for front-line staff who work with women -- in health care, literacy,
corrections, housing and community services. This book offers information and tools
to help recognize responses to post-traumatic stress in women's lives, and to establish
a level of confidence that encourages women who have survived abuse and violence
to consider referrals to appropriate services or resources.
Published 2001
30 pages
$4.95 Ontario
$5.95 outside Ontario
ISBN 0-88868-412-6
Product Code: PG112
First Stage Trauma Treatment: A Guide
for Therapists Working with Women
Forthcoming Dr. Lori Haskell
Many women seeking treatment for depression, suicidal feelings, substance use
problems, difficult or abusive relationships and self-inflicted harm are actually
experiencing complex post-traumatic stress. While post-traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) has been recognized for some time, complex post-traumatic stress disorder
(complex PTSD) is a recently recognized diagnostic category that better captures
the range of adaptations and effects of trauma resulting from early and/or chronic
childhood abuse -- abuse usually perpetrated in a larger context of neglect and deprivation.
Most mental health professionals recognize the challenges in offering help when
a client's problems seem to be both complex and overwhelming, but they are often
unsure of how first to intervene. First Stage Trauma Treatment: A Guide for Therapists
Working with Women provides a conceptual framework for understanding women's
experience of trauma, the basic components of treatment, and specific tools and strategies
to use in beginning this work.
First Stage Trauma Treatment is written for a diverse audience: mental
health and addiction professionals who actively treat women who are abuse survivors,
and related caregivers who wish to understand more about the clients they serve.
All readers will learn ways of increasing safety and reducing and stabilizing symptoms
in the lives of the women abuse survivors with whom they work.
To be published March 2003
200 pages
$34.95
ISBN 0-88868-414-2
Product Code: PG113
The Hidden Majority: A Guidebook on Alcohol
and Other Drug Issues for Counsellors Who Work with Women
The Hidden Majority is a practical guidebook that helps professional counsellors,
social workers, therapists, shelter workers and physicians better understand the
context of women's substance use and intervene effectively on issues related to women's
use.
Topics include:
- how alcohol and other drugs specifically affect women's bodies, and why these
effects are more pronounced in older women
- the three factors that most influence women's substance use, and an in-depth
discussion of each
- the connection between substance use and eating disorders such as anorexia.
Published 1996
219 pages * $29.95
ISBN 0-88868-256-5
Product Code: P567
 Women
and Alcohol
This booklet covers the physical and psychological effects of alcohol; alcohol,
pregnancy and breastfeeding; alcohol and other drugs; stress, safe drinking, women
and drinking problems; other people's drinking; and looking for support.
12 pages package of 25: $21.25
Product Code: P161
Women and Psychosis: An Information Guide
Pamela Blake, April A. Collins, Mary V. Seeman
Psychosis can be frightening, confusing and distressing. Some people who develop
psychosis will only have one psychotic episode in their life, while others will go
on to have a more serious and recurrent form of the illness.
Women and men often have different concerns about the impact of psychotic illness
and effects of treatment on their lifestyle and life choices. This guide is written
for women who have had a psychotic episode and for their families. It explores the
issues women face as they recover from psychosis and as they make decisions to move
ahead in their lives.
Published 2001
36 pages $4.95
ISBN 0-88868-394-4
Product Code: PM021
Women: What Do These Signs Have
in Common? Recognizing the Effects of Abuse-Related Trauma
Recurring nightmares, intentional self-harm, substance use problems, ongoing depression,
panic attacks, difficult relationships and gaps in childhood memories are just a
few of the common effects of psychological trauma. By connecting these effects to
incidents of early childhood abuse, women can better explore ways to heal emotionally
and break negative patterns in their lives. This booklet helps women understand the
experience of trauma and learn where they can go for assistance.
Published 2000
20 pages
Package of 25: $21.25
ISBN 0-88868-392-8
Product Code: P571
Women's Choices, Women's Voices Healthy
Drug-Free Ways of Coping
A 12-page information booklet is included.
Released 1996
(28 minutes)
$79.50 Ontario price
$99.50 outside Ontario
Product Code: PV202
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