Facilitating resilience and recovery following trauma - Lori A. Zoellner

"This volume brings together leading authorities in their respective topics. It is uniquely valuable in focusing on trauma survivors' resilience rather than their pathology. The book helps clinicians and researchers better understand the potentially modifiable risk and resilience factors that shape recovery. It identifies empirically supported principles that elucidate the often bewildering complexity of multiple problems and diagnoses commonly experienced by trauma survivors. Clinical recommendations are included in each chapter. Strongly recommended!"--Josef I. Ruzek, PhD, Director, Dissemination and Training Division, National Center for PTSD, VA Palo Alto Health Care System

"What distinguishes this book from many other volumes on trauma is the message of hope. Zoellner and Feeny are to be congratulated. An international who's who in trauma focuses on how to foster resilience following trauma, a goal we all need to emphasize for our patients, our students, and ourselves. With rich clinical material, the contributors cover the gamut from children to military personnel, acute interventions to dissociation and pain. A 'must read' for clinicians and graduate students who wish to stay abreast of the latest thinking on trauma and recovery."--Barbara Olasov Rothbaum, PhD, ABPP, Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Emory Healthcare Veterans Program and Trauma Anxiety Recovery Program, Emory University School of Medicine

"In recent years, greater attention has been paid to resilience among trauma survivors, which turns out to be more common than expected. Zoellner and Feeney have assembled a distinguished group of trauma scholars to share their perspectives on risk and resilience at the individual level, in the context of interpersonal relationships, and within the larger social fabric. Poignant, inspiring examples head many chapters and illustrate the ways that people recover on their own, even when risk factors are present. For those who are not initially resilient or do not recover naturally, the book shows how healing can be facilitated by modern interventions. This book provides a scholarly overview of what we know so far and points the way to what we need to learn."--Lucy Berliner, MSW, Director, Harborview Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress, University of Washington

"This book does an exceptional job of clarifying the commonly confused concepts of resilience and recovery in the wake of trauma. It advances our field by focusing on common factors that consistently have been shown to facilitate resilience and recovery. This approach gives us a better understanding of the trauma recovery process and simplifies what might be done to help survivors. Clinicians, early interventionists, first responders, and policymakers will all profit from having this book on hand."--Candice M. Monson, PhD, Department of Psychology, Ryerson University, Canada