People suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other consequences of trauma face daunting challenges. Although many clinical treatments target symptoms of PTSD, an optimal treatment strategy would also address the many health problems that co-occur, such as chronic pain, substance misuse, and depression.
To address this need, this book offers mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs). These therapeutic treatments aim to change the patient’s relationship to thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, and associated behaviors through an attitude of non-judgment, curiosity, openness, acceptance, and kindness. MBIs can help clients at any stage of recovery and be used in tandem with standard PTSD therapies. David Kearney and Tracy L. Simpson show practitioners how to guide the patient through meditation practices such as breathing meditation, body scan meditation, or mindful movement to address symptoms including rumination, guilt and shame, avoidance, and hypervigilance, as well as comorbid conditions such as depression, chronic pain, and substance misuse. The authors discuss the research supporting this approach, and offer practical suggestions to help therapists implement MBIs with their clients.
This book shows practitioners how to use mindfulness-based interventions to treat PTSD and related conditions.
Kearney and Simpson help clinicians understand the landscape of trauma more fully, and provide practical suggestions to help group leaders teach mindfulness to people who have sustained trauma. The topics they consider are why to use mindfulness-based interventions for post-traumatic stress disorder, mindfulness-based interventions for selected consequences of trauma, practical considerations for offering mindfulness-based interventions to people with trauma histories, reflections on teaching specific mindfulness practices, and moving forward. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
