Compassion-Based Practices for Secondary Traumatic Stress: A Resource Guide for Helping Professionals [Hardcover]

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.

Beautiful, well researched, and straightforward,?Compassion-Based Practices for Secondary Traumatic Stress?offers the reader a profound way to look at secondary traumatic stress by changing how one processes that stress. Imbued with compassion for both self and others, the compassionate path offered by Ruth Gottfried is a great contribution to the field.?

James R. Doty, MD, director and founder, The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE), adjunct professor of neurosurgery, Stanford University?

I am very pleased to offer my endorsement and extend a warm welcome to Ruth Gottfrieds compassionate framework for addressing secondary traumatic stress. Ruths fresh and useful new approach provides valuable guidance to professionals dealing with secondary traumatic stress, compassionately empowering them to regain their life balance.?

Charles R. Figley, PhD, The Paul Henry Kurzweg, MD, Distinguished Chair in Disaster Mental Health at Tulane University and director of the Tulane University Traumatology Institute?

Unlike most activity-based resources,?Compassion-Based Practices for Secondary Traumatic Stress?provides the conceptual background and empirical support that undergirds the activities. Seamlessly integrating the current research on trauma, secondary traumatic stress, vicarious posttraumatic growth, mindfulness, and compassion, the science presented herein is not only sound but cutting edge.?

Brian E. Bride, PhD, Distinguished University Professols!