Compassion-Based Practices for Secondary Traumatic Stress
is a comprehensive guide that merges profound theoretical insights with practical compassion-based practices. Tailored for helping professionals working with survivors of trauma, this book illuminates a path toward addressing secondary traumatic stress and promoting vicarious posttraumatic growth through a compassionate lens. Distinguished by its in-depth and hands-on creative approach, inclusion of East Asian philosophical principles, and harmonization of self- and other-oriented compassion, this resource guide provides empowering tools for helping professionals from diverse fields of practice and their host organizations.
Compassion-Based Practices for Secondary Traumatic Stress is a workbook of individual and group compassion-based practices that incorporate mindfully contemplative stress-reduction activities and arts-based practices.
Part 1: The Science of Trauma, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Compassion
1. Trauma
2. Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS)
3. Compassion for Self and Others
4. Compassion Within and Beyond Organizations Part II: Secondary Traumatic Stress-Related Compassion-Based Practices
Ruth Gottfried, PhD, serves as head of the David Yellin Academic College Dance Movement Therapy Masters Degree Program and is an ambassador of applied compassion, certified through the flagship program at Stanford Universitys Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. As an academic researcher, Dr. Gottfrieds work focuses primarily on trauma, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion.
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