The Little Book of Trauma Healing: Revised and Updated

Carolyn Yoder

ISBN 10: 1680996037 / ISBN 13: 9781680996036

Published by Skyhorse Publishing, US, 2020

About this Item

How can we effectively address the threat of terrorism? What helps being about long-term security? What stops cycles of victimhood? What role can Restorative Justice play? This fully updated edition offers insightful answers.Following the staggering events of September 11, 2001, the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University was asked to help, along with Church World Service, to equip religious and civil leaders for dealing with traumatized communities. The staff and faculty proposed Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) programs. Now, STAR director, Carolyn Yoder, has shaped the strategies and learnings from those experiences into this newly updated book for all who have known terrorism and threatened security. Topics covered include: Trauma as a call to change and transformationSocietal or collective traumaTrauma affects us physiologicallyOngoing traumaLimitations of defining unhealed trauma through a PTSD frameIncomplete grievingAcknowledgmentReconnectionPrevent trauma by learning to wage peachAnd much more.A startlingly helpful approach. A title in The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding Series.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Little Book of Trauma Healing: Revised and Updated
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, US
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1680996037
• ISBN 13: 9781680996036
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

How do we address trauma, interrupt cycles of violence, and build resilience in a turbulent world of endless wars, nationalism, othering, climate crisis, racism, pandemics, and terrorism? This fully updated edition offers a practical framework, processes, and useful insights.

The traumas of our world go beyond individual or one-time events. They are collective, ongoing, and the legacy of historical injustices. How do we stay awake rather than numbing or responding violently? How do we cultivate individual and collective courage and resilience?

This Little Book provides a justice-and-conflict-informed community approach to addressing trauma in nonviolent, neurobiologically sound ways that interrupt cycles of violence and meet basic human needs for justice and security. In these pages, you'll find the core framework and tools of the internationally acclaimed Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) program developed at Eastern Mennonite University's Center for Justice and Peacebuilding in response to 9/11. A startlingly helpful approach.

About the Author

Carolyn E. Yoder is the Founding Director of STAR (Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience), a training program of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia. She worked as an educator and psychotherapist in Asia, East and Southern Africa, the Middle East, and the Caucuses for more than eighteen years. She has a private psychotherapy practice specializing in transforming trauma and offers online resources at www.PeaceAfterTrauma.com. She holds an MA in Counseling Psychology from Alliant International University and an MA in Linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh. She and her husband, Rick, live in Harrisonburg, Virginia. They have three daughters and four grandchildren.