Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress

Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress presents a model for supporting emotional well-being in workers who are exposed to the effects of secondary trauma. The book provides helping professionals with a portfolio of skills that supports emotion regulation and recovery from secondary trauma exposure and also enhances the experience of the helping encounter. Each chapter presents evidence-informed skills that allow readers to regulate distressing emotions and foster increased empathy for those suffering from trauma.

Key Features

• Evidence-informed skills for emotion regulation
• Strategies to recover from secondary trauma exposure
• Enhances the helping encounter experience
• Focuses on real stress produced by helping professions

Additional Information

Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress goes beyond the usual discussion of burnout to talk in specific terms about what we do about the very real stress that is produced by this work.