| Description |
1 online resource (243 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- CONTENTS -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Prologue -- 1 Introduction: What Is "Trauma?" -- Part I What's Happening in My Brain?: Looks Like Rain Is Coming -- 2 Standard Functioning Brain: Cortisprinkled -- 3 Threatened Brain: Cortisaturated -- 4 Emergency Brain: Cortisoaked -- Part II The Significance of Others: Riptides and Lifeguards -- 5 Culture of Vulnerability: "Why Are You Drowning? Just Swim!" -- 6 Taboo, Stigma, and Shame: Going Against the Flow |
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7 Relationships and Sexuality: The Buddy System -- Part III Coping and Healing: Learning to Float and Swim -- 8 What Can I Do to Prepare?: An Ounce of Prevention -- 9 Coping With Hardship: A Pound of Cure -- 10 Being a Good Support: Throwing a Life Preserver -- 11 Sexual Healing: Balancing Soaking Wet and Dried Up -- 12 When Therapy Might Be Needed: Calling in Reinforcements -- 13 Bringing It All Together: Dancing in the Rain -- References -- Appendix A: Validating Stems -- Appendix B: Q's Without "You"s! -- Appendix C: Dos and Don'ts of Offering Support -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Psychic trauma -- Physiological aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000078015 |
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1000078019 |
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